IP Library Granted Patent US 7,836,323
Granted Patent B2
US 7,836,323 · App. 11/924,998 · Granted Nov 16, 2010

Clock regeneration circuit

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Patent No.
US 7,836,323
App. No.
11/924,998
Granted
Nov 16, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is disclosed a clock regeneration circuit having a PCR buffer including a register which buffers a PCR extracted from a transmission signal, a counter which counts a reception side reference clock CKr, an STC buffer including a register which buffers a counted value of the counter, and a CPU which generates a signal indicating a difference between a transmission side reference clock and the reception side reference clock CKr based on values held in the PCR buffer and the STC buffer. If, at this point, a new PCR is input before the values held in the PCR buffer and the STC buffer are read by the CPU, the PCR buffer and the STC buffer are not updated.

Claims (12)

1. A clock regeneration circuit comprising:

a first buffer which buffers regeneration reference synchronous information extracted from a transmission signal;

a counter which counts a reception side reference clock generated based on a clock control signal;

a second buffer including a register which buffers a counted value of the counter and which has a predetermined bit width; and

a clock control circuit which obtains a difference between a transmission side reference clock and the reception side reference clock based on values held in the first buffer and the second buffer to generate the clock control signal,

wherein when new regeneration reference synchronous information extracted from the transmission signal is input before the values held in the first buffer and the second buffer are read by the clock control circuit, the first buffer and the second buffer are not updated,

when the new regeneration reference synchronous information extracted from the transmission signal is input after the values held in the first buffer and the second buffer have been read by the clock control circuit, the first buffer and the second buffer are updated, and

the reception side reference clock corresponding to the transmission side reference clock using in generation processing of the transmission signal is generated in digital communication.

2. The clock regeneration circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the clock control circuit generates a pulse width modulation signal having a pulse width regulated based on a difference between the values held in the first buffer and the second buffer.

3. The clock regeneration circuit according to claim 2 , wherein the clock control circuit is a CPU, and controls the update of the first buffer and the second buffer.

4. The clock regeneration circuit according to claim 1 further comprising:

a clock oscillation circuit which generates the reception side reference clock based on the clock control signal.

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