The invention discloses a
frequency multiplier based on a
delayed phase-locked loop structure. The
frequency multiplier based on the
delayed phase-locked loop structure can solve the problem that the implementation cost of the existing frequency multiplication technical hardware based on the
delayed phase-locked loop structure is too large. The
frequency multiplier comprises a delayed phase-locked phase detection circuit, a
voltage-controlled
delay chain and an edge combination circuit, wherein the delayed phase-locked phase detection circuit is used for detecting the
phase relationship between the input reference lock
signal CLK0 and the
output feedback clock signal CLKN of the
voltage-controlled
delay chain and generating the control
voltage Vc which adjusts the
delay of the voltage-controlled delay chain. The voltage-controlled delay chain comprises multiple delay units which are used for generating multiple multi-phase
clock signals with equal phase differences. The edge combination circuit is composed of
multiple frequency multiplier circuits and a two frequency-dividing circuit, wherein the
multiple frequency multiplier circuits are used of conducting edge combination on multiple
clock signals with equal phases so as to obtain a
multiple frequency multiplication output signals, the two frequency-dividing circuit is used for conducting frequency-dividing operation on the multiple frequency multiplication output signals to obtain frequency multiplication out signals whose duty ratio is 50% (N / 2).