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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7362150 | Method and system for synchronizing phase of triangular signal A multiplicity of electronic devices is provided to generate triangular wave signals variable between an upper and lower limit voltages by charging or discharging capacitors. One of the triangular wave signals serves as a master triangular wave signal for controllin... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7352995 | Direct digitally tunable microwave oscillators and filters A tunable element in the microwave frequency range is described that may include one or more tunable elements that are directly digitally controlled by a digital bus connecting a digital control circuit to each controlled element. In particular, each digital signal ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7337335 | Method and apparatus for on-demand power management A method for on-demand power management monitors a processing demand in a processing system operating at a first set of voltages and frequencies and generates a second set of voltages and frequencies in response to the processing demand. The method switches from the... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333789 | Wide-band modulation PLL, timing error correction system of wide-band modulation PLL, modulation timing error correction method and method for adjusting radio communication apparatus having wide-band modulation PLL A broadband modulation PLL includes a PLL portion containing a voltage controlled oscillator (101), a frequency divider (105), a phase comparator (104) and a loop filter (103). A frequency-dividing ratio of the frequency divider (105 | 02/19/2008 |
| 7315220 | Voltage controlled oscillator A voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) having a single stage ring-oscillator having both coarse and fine control of the frequency of oscillation is described. In an embodiment the VCO may include a first n-channel latch having a first output and a second output; a fi... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310215 | Direct digitally tunable microwave oscillators and filters A tunable element in the microwave frequency range is described that may include one or more tunable elements that are directly digitally controlled by a digital bus connecting a digital control circuit to each controlled element. In particular, each digital signal ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308283 | Portable radio terminal, antenna selector control method for use in portable radio terminal, and antenna selector control program An antenna selector selects one of the plurality of antennas according to an antenna selection signal. The antenna selector includes a voltage converter and an analog switch circuit. The voltage converter converts a power-supply voltage to a predetermined output vol... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7304942 | Methods and apparatus for maintaining statistic counters and updating a secondary counter storage via a queue for reducing or eliminating overflow of the counters Methods and apparatus are disclosed for maintaining statistic counters and updating a secondary counter memory via a queue for reducing or eliminating overflow of the counters. Multiple counter values are stored in a primary counter storage. An indication of a parti... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301411 | Voltage-controlled oscillator circuit with analogue and digital actuation A VCO circuit (20) has a coil (21) and, in parallel therewith, a constant capacitance (24) and adjustable capacitance elements (22, 23). A first capacitance element (22) is formed by one or more varactors whose capacitance can be a... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7289002 | Complementary metal oxide semiconductor voltage controlled oscillator A complementary metal oxide semiconductor voltage controlled oscillator is provided. The voltage controlled oscillator includes an LC tank which is supplied with a power supply voltage, the LC tank oscillating at a certain frequency; a negative resistor including fi... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283566 | Method and circuit for generating time stamp data from an embedded-clock audio data stream and a video clock In preferred embodiments, a system including a transmitter, a receiver, and a serial link, in which the transmitter is configured to transmit video data, embedded-clock auxiliary data (or auxiliary data derived from embedded-clock auxiliary data), and a video clock ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7268646 | Temperature controlled MEMS resonator and method for controlling resonator frequency There are many inventions described and illustrated herein. In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a temperature compensated microelectromechanical resonator as well as fabricating, manufacturing, providing and/or controlling microelectromechanical reso... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7263152 | Phase-locked loop structures with enhanced signal stability Phase-locked loop structures are provided that facilitate enhanced stability of loop-generated signals. They include an oscillator network, a feedback loop and a controller. The oscillator network generates a loop output signal with a frequency that varies in respon... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262645 | System and method for adjusting the phase of a frequency-locked clock A clock signal regeneration system and method to adjust the phase of a frequency-locked clock signal is provided. The system includes a numerically controlled oscillator, a clock source, and an adder. In one embodiment, additional components are included in the syst... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7228446 | Method and apparatus for on-demand power management An apparatus for on-demand power management including a system controller, a clock domain manager coupled to the system controller and a power distribution manager coupled to the system controller. The system controller monitors a processing demand in a processing s... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224196 | Method and system for synchronizing phase of triangular signal A multiplicity of electronic devices is provided to generate triangular wave signals variable between an upper and lower limit voltages by charging or discharging capacitors. One of the triangular wave signals serves as a master triangular wave signal for controllin... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221920 | Voltage controlled oscillator, frequency synthesizer and communication apparatus A voltage controlled oscillator includes a resonator configured to resonate with an initial oscillation frequency during starting period of oscillation and a steady oscillation frequency during a steady state oscillation. The resonator includes a film bulk acoustic ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7202761 | Temperature compensation for silicon MEMS resonator Thermally induced frequency variations in a micromechanical resonator are actively or passively mitigated by application of a compensating stiffness, or a compressive/tensile strain. Various composition materials may be selected according to their thermal expansion ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7196591 | Tunable frequency, low phase noise and low thermal drift oscillator An oscillator comprising a three-terminal device and circuitry coupled across a first terminal and a second terminal of the device. The circuitry is preferably operable to bias the device and feedback a select amount of noise generated by the device into the device ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7146140 | Quadrature oscillator and methods thereof Briefly, exemplary embodiments of the invention may provide devices and methods to provide precise and/or low phase-noise quadrature oscillation signals. A quadrature oscillator in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the invention may include, for example, a ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7110738 | Direct digitally tunable microwave oscillators and filters A tunable element in the microwave frequency range is described that may include one or more tunable elements that are directly digitally controlled by a digital bus connecting a digital control circuit to each controlled element. In particular, each digital signal ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7099784 | Method and apparatus for preventing overloads of power distribution networks Systems and methods for monitoring power in power distribution systems are provided. In one aspect, a system for monitoring power includes a power monitoring device that measures a value of at least one characteristic of power provided to a branch of a power distrib... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7089444 | Clock and data recovery circuits Clock and data recovery circuitry is provided that is used in integrated circuits such as programmable logic device integrated circuits. The clock and data recovery circuitry may recover digital data and an embedded clock from a high-speed differential input data st... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7084681 | PLL lock detection circuit using edge detection and a state machine A lock detection circuit operatively associated with a phase-locked loop indicates when a feedback clock signal is locked to a reference clock signal. The lock detection circuit counts the number of rising and falling edges of the feedback clock signal that are dete... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7071793 | Temperature compensation for silicon MEMS resonator Thermally induced frequency variations in a micromechanical resonator are actively or passively mitigated by application of a compensating stiffness, or a compressive/tensile strain. Various composition materials may be selected according to their thermal expansion ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068125 | Temperature controlled MEMS resonator and method for controlling resonator frequency There are many inventions described and illustrated herein. In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a temperature compensated microelectromechanical resonator as well as fabricating, manufacturing, providing and/or controlling microelectromechanical reso... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7051224 | Method and apparatus for configuring a clock timing feedback path The present invention provides a method and apparatus for configuring a timing feedback path in a semiconductor device. The apparatus includes an oscillator adapted to provide a reference clock signal. The apparatus further includes at least one buffer layer adapted... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7035835 | High-precision current-mode pulse-width-modulation circuit A current-mode pulse-width-modulation (PWM) circuit converts analog current signals into pulse signals. The PWM circuit includes a first I-V converter and one or more second I-V converters, each of the one or more second I-V converters being coupled to one of the cu... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6949982 | Voltage controlled oscillators incorporating parascan R varactors A voltage controlled oscillator incorporating voltage tunable capactiors, comprising at least one resonator coupled into a base circuit of a bipolar transistor, said at least one resonator including at least one voltage tunable capacitor. The bipolar transistor incl... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6946924 | Low noise voltage controlled oscillator A voltage controlled oscillator, comprising a pair of transistors connected to a tank circuit, said tank circuit including a plurality of tuning diodes connected in parallel with an inductor, said tuning diodes having cathodes connected to a common connection. ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6937456 | Direct digitally tunable microwave oscillators and filters A tunable element in the microwave frequency range is described that may include one or more tunable elements that are directly digitally controlled by a digital bus connecting a digital control circuit to each controlled element. In particular, each digital signal ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6853261 | Method and apparatus for calibrating voltage-controlled devices A method and apparatus for calibrating a voltage-controlled device in a control loop is disclosed. The method and apparatus of the present invention maintains a control voltage of a voltage-controlled device within a high tuning sensitivity range, and thus improves ... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6750726 | Oscillator circuit with flicker noise suppression and method for operating the same An oscillator circuit includes an electrical load, a first metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) devise, a second MOS device, and a negative feedback circuit. The electrical load is coupled between a first node and a second node. The first MOS device is coupled between th... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6731177 | Intermittent oscillation circuit An intermittent oscillation circuit is disclosed, and more particularly, relates to an intermittent oscillation circuit utilized in a RF transmitting/receiving system. The intermittent oscillation circuit of the present invention comprises an inversion circuit, a po... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6707343 | Frequency synthesis apparatus, systems, and methods A frequency synthesizer, a multi-channel carrier generator, and a transceiver, as well as a method for generating a sub-carrier frequency are described. ... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6338105 | Data transmission method and game system constructed by using the method To provide a new data transmission system between a game device and related peripheral devices, and a device using same. Serial transmission data is divided into an odd-numbered bit sequence and an even-numbered bit sequence. Each bit of the odd-numbered bit s... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6297707 | Microwave oscillator with dielectric resonator A microwave oscillator includes at least two active components and a dielectric resonator. The coupling between each active component and the dielectric resonator is of the transmission type and the inputs of neighboring active components are connected to... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6275118 | Push-push oscillator A push--push oscillator is formed by (a) a resonator circuit including a transmission line having one-half wavelength and both ends of the line being left open, and a capacitance for frequency control coupled to the transmission line in parallel, and (b) ... | 08/14/2001 |
| 5289139 | Push-push ring resonator oscillator A push-push microwave oscillator has two branch oscillators fabricated of a transistor and transmission line elements extending from terminals of the transistor, and a resonator which is fabricated of an annulus of superconductor material and serves to ph... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5250910 | Push-push oscillator having in-phase and anti-phase output combining circuits A push-push oscillator including a resonator having a transmission line and a capacitance connected to the transmission line in parallel; an oscillating circuit responsive to the resonator for oscillating and for producing first and second outputs having ... | 10/05/1993 |
