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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2015
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
David Ta-Hsiang Lin, San Diego, CA (US);
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Certain aspects of the present invention provide methods and apparatus for synchronizing frequency-divided oscillating signals associated with multiple radio frequency (RF) paths to be in-phase. For certain aspects, a reset pulse is input to synchronization logic for a particular RF path, and this logic retimes the reset pulse to a local synthesizer clock in this RF path. The retimed reset pulse drives the reset input of a local frequency divider for this RF path and is also appropriately delayed, buffered, and then daisy-chained to the synchronization logic in the next RF path to be repeated therein. By appropriately resetting the local frequency dividers using the synchronization logic in this manner, the frequency-divided oscillating signals for the RF paths are synchronized to operate in-phase with one another.