The invention discloses a multi-phase
delay phase-locked loop and a control method thereof. The multi-phase
delay phase-locked loop comprises a
delay part, a searching part and a control part, wherein the delay part is provided with a plurality of delay units used for outputting a multi-phase
clock, the searching part is connected with the delay units and is used for searching for a target
delay unit, and the control part is connected with the searching part and the delay units and is used for receiving the target
delay unit sent by the searching part, prolonging
delay time of the target
delay unit, controlling the delay part to work in a second mode, obtaining the maximum
delay time of the delay part, and controlling the delay part to work in a first mode if the maximum
delay time does not reach a
clock period of a
system clock signal, and otherwise, controlling the delay part to output the multi-phase clock. By means of the multi-phase delay phase-locked loop and the control method, the problem that in the prior art, phase precision of a multi-phase delay phase-locked loop output clock is low, and therefore the effect of improving the phase precision of the multi-phase output clock is achieved.