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US 12,451,893 B2Granted
Stable scalable digital frequency reference
AssigneeNational Research Council of Canada
InventorBrent Carlson
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Abstract
A method for timing aperture synthesis arrays comprising the steps of: (a) coupling a plurality of independent crystal oscillators, each of the plurality of independent crystal oscillators having a unique output frequency; (b) digitally synchronizing the plurality of independent crystal oscillators in phase; (c) combining the unique output frequencies; and (d) obtaining a stable digital reference signal for timing at least one remote radio device of the aperture synthesis array.
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A system for implementing a scalable stable digital frequency reference, the system comprising:
- a plurality of independent crystal oscillator circuitry coupled to each other, each of the plurality of independent crystal oscillator circuitry comprising:
- (a) an independent crystal oscillator;
- (b) a direct digital synthesizer having a first input from the independent crystal oscillator and second input comprising a phase increment clock source cycle to align all direct digital synthesizers in frequency;
- (c) a phase sampler for sampling an output phase of each direct digital synthesizer into a common synchronous clock domain;
- (d) a sin/cos look-up table stored in a computer-readable medium, wherein the sin/cos look-up table generates a precision digital complex tone based on output of the phase sampler;
- a collective coherent vector sum module for combining the precision digital complex tone in-phase to other precision digital complex tone for each of the other direct digital synthesizer to generate a collective coherent vector sum;
- a phase management block wherein each of the plurality of independent crystal oscillator circuitry compares its own sin/cos vector with the collective coherent vector sum to determine requisite phase and frequency corrections of its own direct digital synthesizer;
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- a conditioner for conditioning the collective coherent vector sum and outputting the scalable stable digital frequency reference.
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