Patent ID: 8339160

Claim:
A clock generating device comprising: a DDS circuit that generates a periodic signal having a frequency; a comparator that compares an input signal and a reference signal and outputs a binary signal; a rate-of-change correcting unit that applies correction for increasing a rate of change at a crossing point with the reference signal to the periodic signal generated by the DDS circuit without changing the frequency of the periodic signal; and a controller, wherein the DDS circuit includes: a phase accumulator unit that sequentially outputs a phase of the periodic signal; a sine-wave converting unit that outputs, on the basis of the phase output from the phase accumulator unit, an amplitude value corresponding to the phase; a D/A converter that converts the amplitude value output by the sine-wave converting unit into an analog signal; and a LPF that removes noise from the analog signal, wherein the rate-of-change correcting unit includes a multiplier that multiplies a digital signal indicating the phase output from the phase accumulator unit by a set multiplication value; and the controller that sets the phase sequentially output by the phase accumulator unit and the multiplication value multiplied by the multiplier of the rate-of-change correcting unit in association with each other.