Automatic clock frequency acquisition

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8059778
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12755292

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A system and method are provided for automatically acquiring a serial data stream clock. The method receives a serial data stream with an unknown clock frequency and coarsely determines the clock frequency. The frequency is coarsely determined by (initially) selecting a high frequency first reference clock (Fref1), and counting the number of data transitions in a first time segment of the serial data stream at a plurality of sample frequencies equal to Fref1/n, where n is an integer ≧1. The count for each sampling frequency is compared to the count for Fref1 (n=1). Next, the highest sampling frequency (n=x) is determined, which has a lower count than Fref1, and the coarse clock frequency is set to Fc1=Fref1/(x−1).

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APPLIED MICRO CIRCUITS CORPORATIONSAN DIEGO CA

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Do, Viet Linh Carlsbad, US 18 150
Eker, Mehmet Mustafa San Marcos, US 11 83
Pang, Simon San Diego, US 50 846

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