Patent 7124154 was granted and assigned to Intel on October, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A low speed clock divider that behaves like a high speed clock divider is provided. The clock divider includes a software-configurable low-speed component for waveform generation and a high-speed component linked to the low-speed component, the high-speed component providing an output signal by serializing a waveform received from the low-speed component.