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US 2022/0052676 A1Published application
Frequency doubler using recirculating delay circuit and method thereof
AssigneeRealtek Semiconductor Corp.
InventorsChia-Liang (Leon) Lin, Chinchi Chang
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Abstract
A method of frequency doubling includes receiving a first clock that has a fifty percent duty cycle and is a two-phase clock having a first phase and a second phase; outputting a second clock using a multiplexer by selecting one of the first phase and the second phase of the first clock in accordance with a third clock; delaying the second clock into a fourth clock using a recirculating delay circuit; and using a divide-by-two circuit to output the third clock in accordance with the fourth clock.
Claims20
A frequency doubler comprising:
- a multiplexer configured to receive a first clock and output a second clock in accordance with a third clock, wherein the first clock has a fifty percent duty cycle and is a two-phase clock comprising a first phase and a second phase;
- a recirculating delay circuit configured to receive the second clock and output a fourth clock and a fifth clock;
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- a divide-by-two circuit configured to receive the fourth clock and output the third clock, wherein the recirculating delay circuit comprises a logic gate and a delay chain comprising a plurality of clock buffers including an intermediate clock buffer and a last clock buffer, said logic gate being configured to receive the second clock and the fifth clock and output a sixth clock, said plurality of clock buffers being cascaded and configured to receive the sixth clock and output the fourth clock from the intermediate clock buffer and output the fifth clock from the last clock buffer.
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A method of frequency doubling comprising:
- receiving a first clock that has a fifty percent duty cycle and is a two-phase clock comprising a first phase and a second phase;
- outputting a second clock using a multiplexer by selecting one of the first phase and the second phase of the first clock in accordance with a third clock;
- delaying the second clock into a fourth clock using a recirculating delay circuit;
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- using a divide-by-two circuit to output the third clock in accordance with the fourth clock.
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