Clock recovery system using wide-bandwidth injection locked oscillator with parallel phase-locked loop

• US 6,369,659 B1
• Filed: 06/29/2000
• Issued: 04/09/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tektronix Incorporated (Fortive Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Tektronix Incorporated (Fortive Corp.)
• Inventors: Delzer, Donald J., Wolaver, Dan H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Grimm, Siegfried H.
• Application Number:
  US09/606,289
• Time in Patent Office: 649 Days
• Field of Search: 331/10, 331/25, 331/34, 375/376
• US Class Current: 331/10
• CPC Class Codes: H03L 2207/06 Phase locked loops with a controlled oscillator having at least two frequency control terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H03L 7/083 the reference signal being additionally directly applied to the generator
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 7/027 extracting the synchronising or clock signal from the received signal spectrum, e.g. by using a resonant or bandpass circuit
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 7/0276 Self-sustaining, e.g. by tuned delay line and a feedback path to a logical gate
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 7/033 using the transitions of the received signal to control the phase of the synchronising-signal-generating means, e.g. using a phase-locked loop

Abstract

A clock recovery system includes a source of a data signal, and a free-running frequency adjustment circuit. The free-running frequency adjustment circuit includes an injection-locked oscillator having a free-running frequency and generating a clock signal and a phase locked loop, coupled in parallel with the injection locked oscillator, and generating a control signal adjusting the free running frequency of the injection locked oscillator.

Claims

1. A clock recovery system comprising:

a source of a data signal;

an injection-locked oscillator, coupled to the data signal source, having a free-running frequency and generating a clock signal; and

a phase locked loop, coupled in parallel with the injection locked oscillator, and generating a control signal adjusting the free running frequency of the injection locked oscillator as a function of the clock signal and the data signal.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the data signal source generates a non-return-to-zero binary data signal.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein:

the injection locked oscillator includes an injection input terminal coupled to the data signal source, an output terminal generating the clock signal, and a free running frequency adjustment terminal;

the phase locked loop comprises;

a phase comparator having a first input terminal coupled to the data signal source, a second input terminal coupled to the output terminal of the injection locked oscillator, and an output terminal generating a phase error signal; and

a loop filter having an input terminal coupled to the output terminal of the phase comparator and an output terminal coupled to the free running frequency adjustment terminal.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein the loop filter comprises an integrator.

5. The system of claim 2 wherein the phase locked loop is fabricated to have a relatively narrow bandwidth.