[PATCH] clk: tegra: PLLE spread spectrum control

Peter De Schrijver pdeschrijver at nvidia.com
Thu Oct 3 06:52:28 EDT 2013


On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 09:56:26PM +0200, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 09/26/2013 09:34 AM, Peter De Schrijver wrote:
> > Add spread spectrum control for PLLE in Tegra114.
> 
> It would be useful to have some description of the end-user-visible
> benefit of this change; why is it useful?

spread spectrum clocking is a technique to reduce EMI caused by the clock
signal by modulating the frequency with a low frequency signal. This should
reduce interference with eg. Wifi or cellular modems on the same board.

Cheers,

Peter.



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