Patent ID: 7272620

Claim:
A signal processing system configured to produce a divider output signal, the system comprising: a plurality of storage elements; where each of the plurality of storage elements is configured to receive a first input, a second input, and a reference input signal, and is configured to provide a storage element output; where the divider output signal is obtained from at least one storage element output; where a storage element output from each of the plurality of storage elements is used to provide at least one input to another one of the plurality of storage elements; and where the storage element output from each of the plurality of storage elements is responsive to the storage element output from at least another one of the plurality of storage elements, where the divider output signal has a period substantially equal to a period of the reference input signal multiplied by a frequency division ratio, where the frequency division ratio is equal to a total number of the plurality of storage elements, where a phase difference between a first storage element output and a second storage element output is equal to 360° divided by twice the total number of the plurality of storage elements, and where the signal processing system is implemented in a mobile communications device.