US Patent Issued to MediaTek on Aug. 12 for "Clock and data recovery circuit with spread spectrum clocking synthesizer" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,447, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Clock and data recovery circuit with spread spectrum clocking synthesizer" was invented by Chien-Kai Kao (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yi-Hsien Cho (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a circuitry including a PLL and a CDR circuit, wherein the CDR includes a phase detector, a digital loop filter, a first phase interpolator and a second phase interpolator. The PLL is configured to generate a first clock signal with SSC modulation and a control signal. The phase detector is configured to generate a detection result according an i...