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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2011
Filed:
May. 22, 2008
Paolo Novellini, Gorgonzola, IT;
Silvio Cucchi, Gaggiano, IT;
Giovanni Guasti, Cornaredo, IT;
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Circuits are provided that generate from an input signal one or more output clock signals having reduced skew. The input signal has transitions derived from the transitions of an original clock signal having a frequency that differs from the frequency of the output clock signal. The frequency of the output clock signal is a product from multiplying the frequency for the input signal and an integer ratio. The circuit includes an accumulator, a fractional phase detector, and a loop filter. The accumulator periodically adds a numerical offset value to a numerical phase value. The output clock signal is generated from this numerical phase value. The fractional phase detector generates from the numerical phase value a respective numerical phase error for each of the transitions of the input signal. The loop filter generates the numerical offset value from a filtering of the respective numerical phase errors.