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Wide bandwidth phase locked loop circuit with sliding window averager

US4963839A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 1, 1989
Grant dateOct 16, 1990
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Expiry dateSep 1, 2009

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03L7/093
  • WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Broadband, single and multiphase phase lock loop circuits utilize a sliding window averager to remove the second harmonic and other ac components from a phase error signal which is the product of a sinusoidal or square wave source signal and a corresponding reference signal synthesized from a variable frequency signal produced by a voltage controlled oscillator as a function of the integratal of the phase error signal. The sliding window averager maintains a running average of a number of most recent samples of the phase error signal taken over a selected interval which is preferably one-half cycle of the source signal. Also preferably, the sliding window averager is clocked by the variable frequency signal generated by the voltage controlled oscillator.

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