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US 2021/0116871 A1Published application
Frequency estimation
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsSarit Zur, Igal Kushnir, Gil Horovitz, Rotem Banin, Sergey Bershansky
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Abstract
A frequency estimator for estimating a frequency, including a counter configured to count an integer number of full clock cycles during a measurement time window; a Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) configured to measure a fraction of a clock cycle during the measurement time window; and a processor configured to determine the estimated frequency based on the counted number of full clock cycles and the measured fraction of the clock cycle.
Claims17
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A frequency estimator for estimating a frequency, comprising:
- a counter configured to count an integer number of full clock cycles during a measurement time window;
- a Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) configured to measure a fraction of a clock cycle during the measurement time window;
- and
- a processor configured to determine the estimated frequency based on the counted number of full clock cycles and the measured fraction of the clock cycle.
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A method of estimating a frequency, comprising:
- counting, by a counter, an integer number of full clock cycles during a measurement time window;
- measuring, by a Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC), a fraction of a clock cycle during the measurement time window;
- and
- determining, by a processor, the estimated frequency based on the counted number of full clock cycles and the measured fraction of the clock cycle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.