A Duty-Cycle Correction Circuit for High-Frequency Clocks

Abstract

We present a circuit to control duty-cycle of high-frequency clocks with very fine resolution. The proposed duty-cycle detection and correction circuits are digital and do not require external references and matching devices. The circuits are designed to compensate for duty-cycle uncertainties in a floating point unit implemented using limited switch dynamic logic (LSDL) (Belloumini, 2005). The results show that the circuit can correct the duty-cycle of an 8-GHz clock with plusmn0.8% accuracy for an input range of 25% to 75%