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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2011
Applicant:
Adam B. Eldredge, Austin, TX (US);
Inventor:
Adam B. Eldredge, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Silicon Laboratories Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method includes operating on a sigma-delta modulated signal to reduce a dither signal component in one of a first signal and a second signal, the first signal being an integer portion corresponding to a digital frequency ratio and the second signal corresponding to a fractional portion of the digital frequency ratio. In at least one embodiment of the method, the operation is performed digitally in a frequency synthesizer.