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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2004
Applicant:
Bruno Paille, Saint Aupre, FR;
Inventor:
Bruno Paille, Saint Aupre, FR;
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics S.A., Montrouge, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03D 3/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A frequency shift of a carrier frequency of an input signal is estimated with a frequency estimator in order to obtain an estimate value. Then, the estimate of the frequency shift is refined, and the carrier frequency is corrected in consequence, with a phase-locked loop that is initialized with the estimate value. The phase-locked loop has a locking frequency range that is narrower than a locking frequency range of the frequency estimator.