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A phase-locked pulsewidth control loop with programmable duty cycle

Cheng et al., 2004

Document ID
12427842923616482698
Author
Cheng K
Su C
Wu C
Lo Y
Publication year
Publication venue
Proceedings of 2004 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Advanced System Integrated Circuits

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The new proposed phase-locked pulsewidth control loop (PWCL) focus on variable duty cycle of output clock and synchronizes the input clock and output clock. The conventional PWCL can adjust duty cycle but can't synchronize the input and output clocks. By using …
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