Patent ID: 8503503

Claim:
A method comprising: selecting, as an output frequency of a voltage controlled oscillator, a destination frequency from a plurality of frequencies, each of the frequencies spaced equally by a frequency gap from other adjacent frequencies, the plurality of frequencies are within a transmission frequency range of a transmitter associated with the voltage controlled oscillator; determining, via a decision making circuit, whether a look-up table containing precalibration information for one or more of the plurality of frequencies includes precalibration information for the selected destination frequency; determining, from the selected destination frequency, an offset to a single one of the plurality of frequencies for which the look-up table includes precalibration information responsive to the look-up table not including the precalibration information for the selected destination frequency; accessing, based on the offset, a storage element for offset information useful to alter the output frequency of the voltage controlled oscillator; and using the offset information and the precalibration information for the single one of the plurality of frequencies to settle the output frequency of the voltage controlled oscillator at the selected destination frequency.