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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:
Apr. 25, 2017

Filed:

Jun. 09, 2015
Applicant:

Stmicroelectronics (Crolles 2) Sas, Crolles, FR;

Inventors:

Martin Cochet, Grenoble, FR;

Sylvain Clerc, Grenoble, FR;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/04 (2006.01); H03K 21/38 (2006.01); G06F 1/08 (2006.01); H03L 7/081 (2006.01); H03K 23/64 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 21/38 (2013.01); G06F 1/08 (2013.01); H03L 7/081 (2013.01); H03K 23/64 (2013.01);
Abstract

A pulse signal generator has an input receiving an initial pulse signal having an initial period, an oscillator generating an oscillator signal, a first stage and a second stage. The first stage is synchronized with the oscillator signal and configured to deliver a secondary pulse signal having a separation between successive pulses that is representative of an integer part of a division of the initial period by an integer N. The first stage further delivers an auxiliary signal representative of a fractional part of the division and containing, for each pulse of the secondary pulse signal, an indication of a time shift to be applied to the pulse taking into account the separation. The second stage is configured to receive the successive pulses and the corresponding time shift indications and generate successive corresponding pulses of an output pulse signal.


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