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Abstract

A precision PLL based transceiver having a single precision SAW or crystal resonator is configured to lock onto multiple different input frequencies and output generated clocks at the multiple different frequencies. The input reference frequency may be higher or lower than the resonator frequency. A fraction of two whole numbers describing a ratio of the resonator frequency to a given input frequency reference is first obtained. One of the numerator or denominator in the fraction is used to set the divide value of a first frequency divider coupling a VFO based on the resonator to a feedback input on a PFD. The other of the numerator or denominator is used to set a second frequency divider coupling the input frequency reference signal to the PFD. A first frequency multiplier is given a multiplication factor matching the divide value of the second frequency divider, and used to couple the output of the first frequency divider to the output of the PLL. Alternatively, a second frequency divider may be inserted between the reference frequency input and the PFD to match the frequency, or a multiple thereof, of the VFO output, which may bypass the first frequency divider in the feedback path to the PFD.

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