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Apparatus for clock shifting in an integrated transceiver

US5926514A · kind A · utility

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12Claims
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Filing dateMar 3, 1997
Grant dateJul 20, 1999
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Expiry dateMar 3, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L7/0337
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A radio (100) having an integrated transceiver circuit (102) avoids circuit crosstalk through the use of a clock shifter circuit (120). The radio includes a microcontroller unit (MCU) (104) controlled by a MCU clock. A channel selector (116) coupled to the MCU (104) provides a selected frequency channel while memory (106) downloads channel information which includes integer clock shifter ratios assigned to each channel. The integrated transceiver (102) includes a clock shifter circuit (120) which divides a reference signal into a clock frequency and provides this clock frequency to the MCU (104) as the MCU clock. The MCU (104) reprograms the clock shifter circuit (120) with one of the integer clock shifter ratios to generate a shifted MCU clock frequency if the selected frequency channel is susceptible to harmonics of the MCU clock.

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