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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2011
Ewunnet Gebre-selassie, San Jose, CA (US);
Dawson W. Kesling, Davis, CA (US);
Steven J. Kirch, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Rahul D. Limaye, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Shah M. Musa, Cupertino, CA (US);
Fugao Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Ewunnet Gebre-Selassie, San Jose, CA (US);
Dawson W. Kesling, Davis, CA (US);
Steven J. Kirch, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Rahul D. Limaye, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Shah M. Musa, Cupertino, CA (US);
Fugao Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A terminal includes control logic to control a phase-locked loop to output a spread-spectrum clocking signal. The control logic controls the generation of the spread-spectrum clocking signal by adjusting at least one parameter of the phase-locked loop. The parameter may be a charge pump setting or a loop-filter capacitance of the phase-locked loop, or their digital equivalents. Adjustment of the parameter reduces a predetermined portion of a communications spectrum. The predetermined portion may be located within a range of frequencies allocated to a specific channel, and reduction of the spectrum in this range may serve to reduce noise associated with clocking harmonics.