International Business Machines Corporation
DETECTING DISTORTION IN SPREAD SPECTRUM SIGNALS

Abstract:

Detecting distortion in spread spectrum signals, including: identifying, based on a reference clock signal, one or more edges in a spread spectrum clock signal; incrementing one or more counters corresponding to the one or more edges, the one or more counters included in a plurality of counters; providing each bit of a respective output of the plurality of counters to a respective OR gate of a plurality of OR gates; and outputting, based on an output of an OR gate of the plurality of OR gates corresponding to a selected bit, an indication of whether distortion exists in the spread spectrum clock signal.