Circuit configuration and method for distributing pulses within a time interval

A method for generating pulses within a time interval, the method comprising:

• providing a predictive value by predicting a current time interval, based on the assumption that the current time interval corresponds to at least one preceding time interval, wherein the current time interval is Δt(0) and it is based on assuming that the current time interval Δt(0) is as long as one or a plurality preceding time intervals;
• deriving, if a number of pulses to be transmitted is set in proportion to the predicted time interval, an adder value, and applying it to an adder via an input of the adder;
• storing the adder value at an output of the adder at a clock pulse in a memory arrangement;
• adding the adder value at each clock pulse to form a cumulative value;
• generating, when the cumulative value exceeds a range of numbers limited to a specific bit width, an overflow, so that the overflow bit positions are lost, the overflow being a pulse;
• counting the pulses with a counting unit;
• comparing the number of generated output pulses to a setpoint value with a comparator unit;
• adding, if not all pulses could be output that were to be output in accordance with the setpoint value, in the current time interval, a number of the pulses missing in a most recent previous time interval to a number of pulses to be output in the current time interval, in accordance with the setpoint value;
• deriving a new number of pulses to be transmitted for the current time interval based on the following equation:
• n_new=n+m+a;
• and
• deriving the adder value based on the following equation:
• ADD_IN=n_new/Δt(0);
• wherein n=number of pulses to be output in the current time interval, m=number of the pulses missing in the most recent previous time interval, a=systematic deviation of the current time interval, and Δt(0)=current time interval, and
• wherein an output of the first adder circuit is connected to an input of a memory element, which includes an input and an output, the output of the memory element being connected to the first input of the first adder circuit.