Patents by Inventor Paul H.L.M. SCHRAM
Paul H.L.M. SCHRAM has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9667237Abstract: In a digital phase locked loop comprising a PLL loop including a first software-implemented controlled oscillator (SDCO) responsive to a control value to generate output phase and frequency values locked to a reference input signal, and a hardware-implemented controlled oscillator responsive to output phase and frequency values from said first SDCO to synthesize said clock signals, hardware delays are compensated for by sampling said synthesized clock signals, or derivatives thereof, to generate synthesized clock phase values. The synthesized clock signal phase values are compared with feedback phase values derived from the PLL loop to generate a compensation value to modify the synthesized clock signals or derivatives thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2016Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: MICROSEMI SEMICONDUCTOR ULCInventors: Qu Gary Jin, Paul H. L. M. Schram, Krste Mitric, Cathy Zhang, Gabriel Rusaneanu, Wenbao Wang
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Patent number: 9647674Abstract: A clock signal generator responsive to synchronization pulses to perform actions has a phase locked loop (PLL) part including a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) and an output driver coupled to the DCO, and a synthesizer part including a frequency synthesizer responsive to frequency and phase information from the DCO to generate a synthesized clock and programmable output dividers for generating output clocks from the synthesized clock. An interface establishes communication between the PLL part and the synthesizer part. The output driver is programmed to compute a phase offset required to align a selected output divider with the phase of the DCO and transmit the computed offset to the selected output divider over said interface for application to said selected output divider upon the occurrence of a synchronization pulse.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2016Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Microsemi Semiconductor ULCInventors: Paul H. L. M. Schram, Krste Mitric, Gabriel Rusaneanu
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Patent number: 9634675Abstract: A phase locked loop with holdover mode has a loop filter for creating an offset frequency value for a controlled oscillator. The loop filter includes a register for storing the current offset frequency value the said controlled oscillator. A first multiplexer responsive to a holdover signal selects, depending on the quality of a reference signal, the output of the loop filter or a holdover queue to control the controlled oscillator. A second multiplexer responsive to the holdover signal selects for input to the register, depending on the quality of the reference signal, the sum of an output of the register and a value derived from the current phase difference between the output of the controlled oscillator and the reference signal or a current output value of the holdover queue.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2016Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: Microsemi Semiconductor ULCInventors: Paul H. L. M. Schram, Krste Mitric
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Patent number: 9595972Abstract: Master clock redundancy is provided for a digital phase locked loop having a digital controlled oscillator (DCO) driven by a master clock source, for example, a crystal oscillator. One of a plurality of a crystal oscillators generating clock signals is selected to drive the DCO. The performance of the crystal oscillators is monitored, and the DCO is switched from being driven by a previously selected crystal oscillator to a newly selected crystal oscillator upon loss of a clock signal from the previously selected crystal oscillator or when the performance of the previously selected crystal oscillator falls below a predetermined acceptable level.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2016Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: Microsemi Semiconductor ULCInventors: Slobodan Milijevic, Johannes Hermanus Aloysius de Rijk, Paul H. L. M. Schram, Mark A Warriner
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Patent number: 9584138Abstract: A multi-channel phase locked loop (PLL) device has a plurality of PLL channels. Each channel includes a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) supplying an output clock, via an output divider, to a respective output pin. A first multiplexer selects any of the PLL channels for alignment. A feedback calibration PLL is responsive to a feedback signal derived from an output clock of a selected channel at the respective output pin. A delay control module is responsive to an output of the feedback calibration PLL to adjust the phase of the output clock.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2016Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: Microsemi Semiconductor ULCInventors: Krste Mitric, Qu Gary Jin, Guohui Situ, Paul H. L. M. Schram, Changhui Cathy Zhang, Richard Geiss
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Publication number: 20160301419Abstract: A clock signal generator responsive to synchronization pulses to perform actions has a phase locked loop (PLL) part including a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) and an output driver coupled to the DCO, and a synthesizer part including a frequency synthesizer responsive to frequency and phase information from the DCO to generate a synthesized clock and programmable output dividers for generating output clocks from the synthesized clock. An interface establishes communication between the PLL part and the synthesizer part. The output driver is programmed to compute a phase offset required to align a selected output divider with the phase of the DCO and transmit the computed offset to the selected output divider over said interface for application to said selected output divider upon the occurrence of a synchronization pulse.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2016Publication date: October 13, 2016Inventors: Paul H.L.M. Schram, Krste Mitric, Gabriel Rusaneanu
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Publication number: 20160301416Abstract: Master clock redundancy is provided for a digital phase locked loop having a digital controlled oscillator (DCO) driven by a master clock source, for example, a crystal oscillator. One of a plurality of a crystal oscillators generating clock signals is selected to drive the DCO. The performance of the crystal oscillators is monitored, and the DCO is switched from being driven by a previously selected crystal oscillator to a newly selected crystal oscillator upon loss of a clock signal from the previously selected crystal oscillator or when the performance of the previously selected crystal oscillator falls below a predetermined acceptable level.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2016Publication date: October 13, 2016Inventors: Slobodan Milijevic, Johannes Hermanus Aloysius de Rijk, Paul H.L.M. Schram, Mark A. Warriner
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Publication number: 20160301417Abstract: A multi-channel phase locked loop (PLL) device has a plurality of PLL channels. Each channel includes a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) supplying an output clock, via an output divider, to a respective output pin. A first multiplexer selects any of the PLL channels for alignment. A feedback calibration PLL is responsive to a feedback signal derived from an output clock of a selected channel at the respective output pin. A delay control module is responsive to an output of the feedback calibration PLL to adjust the phase of the output clock.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2016Publication date: October 13, 2016Inventors: Krste Mitric, Qu Gary Jin, Guohui Situ, Paul H.L.M. Schram, Changhui Cathy Zhang, Richard Geiss
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Publication number: 20160294399Abstract: A phase locked loop with holdover mode has a loop filter for creating an offset frequency value for a controlled oscillator. The loop filter includes a register for storing the current offset frequency value the said controlled oscillator. A first multiplexer responsive to a holdover signal selects, depending on the quality of a reference signal, the output of the loop filter or a holdover queue to control the controlled oscillator. A second multiplexer responsive to the holdover signal selects for input to the register, depending on the quality of the reference signal, the sum of an output of the register and a value derived from the current phase difference between the output of the controlled oscillator and the reference signal or a current output value of the holdover queue.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Paul H.L.M. Schram, Krste Mitric
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Publication number: 20160294401Abstract: In a digital phase locked loop comprising a PLL loop including a first software-implemented controlled oscillator (SDCO) responsive to a control value to generate output phase and frequency values locked to a reference input signal, and a hardware-implemented controlled oscillator responsive to output phase and frequency values from said first SDCO to synthesize said clock signals, hardware delays are compensated for by sampling said synthesized clock signals, or derivatives thereof, to generate synthesized clock phase values. The synthesized clock signal phase values are compared with feedback phase values derived from the PLL loop to generate a compensation value to modify the synthesized clock signals or derivatives thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Qu Gary Jin, Paul H.L.M. Schram, Krste Mitric, Cathy Zhang, Gabriel Rusaneanu, Wenbao Wang
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Patent number: 9124415Abstract: A clock generator with glitchless phase adjustment having a phase locked loop with a controlled oscillator providing an output representing a phase value. One or more output modules generate one or more output clocks from the output. One or more adjustment modules add a requested phase adjustment to an output clock. The phase adjustment modules are configured to break the requested phase adjustment into smaller increments and apply the increments to an output clock generated in said at the output modules one cycle at a time.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2015Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: Microsemi Semiconductor ULCInventors: David Colby, Joep De Rijk, Paul H. L. M. Schram, Tanmay Zargar
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Patent number: 9094185Abstract: A digital phase locked loop has a phase acquisition module that outputs a first phase value representative of the phase of a reference signal expressed with respect to an internal phase reference. A phase offset write module convert a phases offset commanded from an external source into a phase offset correction value expressed with respect to the internal phase reference. A phase offset controller sums the phase offset correction values to produce a second phase value, which is added to the first phase value to produce a third phase value expressed with respect to the internal phase reference. A digital controlled oscillator (DCO) outputs a fourth phase value expressed with respect to the internal phase reference. A phase detector outputs a fifth phase value representing the difference between the third and fourth phase values. A loop filter derives a frequency offset for the DCO based on the fifth phase value. An output module generates one or more output clocks from the fourth phase value.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2015Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: MICROSEMI SEMICONDUCTOR ULCInventors: Paul H. L. M. Schram, Krste Mitric, Slobodan Milijevic, Tanmay Zargar, David Colby
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Publication number: 20150207619Abstract: A digital phase locked loop has a phase acquisition module that outputs a first phase value representative of the phase of a reference signal expressed with respect to an internal phase reference. A phase offset write module convert a phases offset commanded from an external source into a phase offset correction value expressed with respect to the internal phase reference. A phase offset controller sums the phase offset correction values to produce a second phase value, which is added to the first phase value to produce a third phase value expressed with respect to the internal phase reference. A digital controlled oscillator (DCO) outputs a fourth phase value expressed with respect to the internal phase reference. A phase detector outputs a fifth phase value representing the difference between the third and fourth phase values. A loop filter derives a frequency offset for the DCO based on the fifth phase value. An output module generates one or more output clocks from the fourth phase value.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2015Publication date: July 23, 2015Inventors: Paul H.L.M. SCHRAM, Krste MITRIC, Slobodan MILIJEVIC, Tanmay ZARGAR, David COLBY
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Publication number: 20150207620Abstract: A clock generator with glitchless phase adjustment having a phase locked loop with a controlled oscillator providing an output representing a phase value. One or more output modules generate one or more output clocks from the output. One or more adjustment modules add a requested phase adjustment to an output clock. The phase adjustment modules are configured to break the requested phase adjustment into smaller increments and apply the increments to an output clock generated in said at the output modules one cycle at a time.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2015Publication date: July 23, 2015Inventors: David COLBY, Joep De RIJK, Paul H.L.M. SCHRAM, Tanmay ZARGAR