System and method for adjusting supply voltage to VCO to minimize affects
of circuit noise on VCO. Method includes obtaining a number of data
points each by incrementing a counter by the number of VCO periods during
a phase of a local oscillator, changing the supply voltage, decrementing
the counter by the number of VCO periods during another phase of the
local oscillator, and then storing the net count. Then among the saved
data points a data point is selected that is the point at or near where
the VCO is least sensitive to supply changes and the VCO is set to
operate at the supply voltage corresponding to this data point. A system
includes a controller, up/down counter, local oscillator, and VCO. The
counter counts the oscillations of the VCO and a stored net counts
provide information as to where the VCO is least sensitive to the supply
voltage.