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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2015

Filed:

Aug. 16, 2013
Applicant:

Intel Ip Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Rotem Banin, Even-Yehuda, IL;

Ofir Degani, Haifa, IL;

Markus Schimper, Moosinning, DE;

Ashoke Ravi, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Assignee:

Intel IP Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/04 (2006.01); H03M 1/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/0475 (2013.01); H03M 1/66 (2013.01); H04B 2001/045 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of a digital-to-time converter (DTC) and methods for generating phase-modulated signals are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a divide by 2N+/−1 operation on an oscillator signal generates first and second divider signals, the first divider signal is sampled to provide a rising-edge correlated signal, a divider unit output signal is sampled to provide a falling edge correlated signal, and either the second divider signal or a delayed version of the second divider signal is provided as the divider unit output signal. A selection between the rising-edge and the falling-edge correlated signals generates edge signals. A fine phase-modulated output signal is generated based on an edge interpolation between a first and second edge signals.


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