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Clock recovery apparatus

US6747826B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJan 28, 2003
Grant dateJun 8, 2004
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Expiry dateJan 28, 2023

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L7/0083
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A reproduction signal 10 is processed in an AD converter 4 and an equalizer 16 to be a decoder input signal 12. The decoder input signal 12 is used to calculate a phase error signal 25 and a quality judgement signal 26. A phase-frequency error detection circuit 22 retains a sign of the phase error signal 25 obtained when the quality judgement signal 26 is changed in quality from “good” to “bad”. The phase-frequency error detection circuit 22 then outputs, as a phase-frequency error signal 27, the phase error signal 25 when the signal quality is “good”, and a given value corresponding to the retained sign when the signal quality is “bad”. A voltage controlled oscillator 9 generates a recovered clock signal 11 whose frequency is based on the oscillation control signal 15 generated by the phase-frequency error signal 27.

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