Circuit arrangement for frequency conversion of a digital signal
AssigneeU.S. Philips Corporation
InventorMatthias Herrmann
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AssigneeU.S. Philips Corporation
InventorMatthias Herrmann
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A circuit arrangement for converting a digital signal of a first frequency into a signal of a second frequency and including an interpolator/decimator is characterized, notably for asynchronous first and second clock signals, in that there is provided at least one multiplexer arrangement which includes a first register which is clocked at the inverted first clock frequency and a second register which is clocked at the second clock frequency, and also includes a multiplexer, the input signal of the multiplexer arrangement being applied to the first register and to a first input of the multiplexer whose second input is coupled to the output of the first register, there also being provided a control circuit which alternately switches the signals applied to the two inputs of the multiplexer to its output in such a manner that at the instants at which this signal is written into the second register a valid signal is always present at the output of the multiplexer.
A circuit arrangement for conversion of a digital data signal (D.sub.in) having a first clock frequency (T.sub.1) into a signal having a second clock frequency (T.sub.2), comprising an interpolator/decimator which includes a series of successively connected input registers for the data signal, each register comprising a clock input for a register clock signal, a data input for the data signal, and a data output which is coupled to an input of arithmetic circuits for calculating a linear combination of output signals, characterized in that at least one multiplexer is provided between an input register and the arithmetic circuits, a first input of the multiplexer being coupled to a data output of an input register, a second input of the multiplexer being coupled, via a first register, to said data output and an output of the multiplexer being coupled to an input of a second register, said first register comprising a clock input which is coupled to the output of an inverter present for applying an inverted first clock signal to said first register, said second register comprising a clock input for a clock signal of the second clock frequency (T.sub.2), said circuit arrangement furthermore comprising a control circuit, an output of which is coupled to a control input of the multiplexer in order to apply a control signal (M.sub.x) thereto so that the output of the multiplexer is connected to that one input of the first and second inputs of the multiplexer that receives a stable signal during writing of data into the second register.
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