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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7362192 | Low noise voltage-controlled oscillator Oscillator circuits for reducing phase noise are described in this disclosure. In one embodiment, an oscillator circuit includes a pair of cross-coupled transistors, including a first transistor and a second transistor, a first inductor in communication with a contr... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7342462 | Quadrature LC voltage controlled oscillator with opposed bias and coupling control stages A voltage controlled oscillator unit is provided with cross coupled voltage controlled oscillators to generate quadrature phases. One control stage adjusts coupling between the oscillators. Another control stage adjusts the tail current that applies operating bias t... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7336135 | Oscillator and semiconductor device An oscillator for ensuring the phase relationship between two resonant circuits coupled by a coupling circuit. A first resonant circuit outputs two signals having different phases, and a second resonant circuit outputs two signals having different phases. The coupli... | 02/26/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7302011 | Quadrature frequency doubling system The frequency doubler of the present invention operates to provide an in-phase signal and a quadrature signal, each having a frequency equal to twice the frequency of a reference signal. The in-phase and quadrature signals are based on signals that are 0 degrees, 45... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295081 | Time delay oscillator for integrated circuits One aspect relates to an oscillator, and various oscillator embodiments comprise an amplifier and line driver with an input and an output and a transmission line with a predetermined transmission signal time delay. The output is adapted to produce an inverted signal... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7286022 | Resistor-capacitor (RC) oscillator insensitive to process, voltage, and temperature variances There is provided a resistor-capacitor (RC) oscillator circuit insensitive to process, voltage, and temperature variances. The RC oscillator circuit includes a delay unit, a resistor unit, a capacitor, a resistor, and a first controller. The delay unit delays and ou... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283602 | Half-rate clock and data recovery circuit A half-rate clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit includes a half-rate phase detector for detecting phases of an input signal and a half-rate clock, a charge pump circuit, a low-pass filter and a voltage controlled oscillator for feeding the half-rate clock back to ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7274216 | Duty cycle controlled CML-CMOS converter There is provided a CML to CMOS converter comprising two current sources both connected between a first power supply, having a first potential, and a driving node, first and second push-pull drive stages each having a current path connected between a second power su... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7230476 | Bipolar high impedance element A bipolar high impedance element comprises a p-n diode made from a compound semiconductor, and circuitry arranged to reverse-bias the diode such that the diode conducts a nearly constant current—thereby enabling the element to be employed as a high impedance eleme... | 06/12/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7205811 | Methods and apparatus for maintaining desired slope of clock edges in a phase interpolator using an adjustable bias Methods and apparatus are provided for maintaining a desired slope of clock edges in a phase interpolator using an adjustable bias. The disclosed phase interpolator comprises at least one delay element to generate at least two interpolation signals each having an as... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7202726 | Voltage controlled oscillator delay cell A voltage-controlled oscillator design is disclosed that provides greater tuning range than a prior art differential amplifier design using “varactor” diodes. The design employs CMOS capacitors to replace varactor diodes. The CMOS capacitors are formed from PMOS... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7196564 | High frequency balanced phase interpolator A phase interpolation system includes an input stage that provides first and second modulated input signals having selected first and second relative phase angles. A weighting system is configured to steer a first portion of the first modulated input signal to an ou... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7181181 | Multi-band transceiver for a wireless communication system A local oscillation signal generator and a multi-band transceiver including the local oscillation signal generator are provided. The multi-band transceiver includes a fractional-N phased locked loop (PLL), a local oscillation signal generator, and a transmitter. The... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7129780 | Compound load for differential circuits An improved load configuration is provided for differential circuits which increases circuit bandwidth without increasing power dissipation. A differential circuit generally includes a differential pair of transistors having emitters coupled together. The improved l... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7109799 | Current-controlled CMOS wideband data amplifier circuits Expansion of the bandwidth of a wideband CMOS data amplifier is accomplished using various combinations of shunt peaking, series peaking, and miller capacitance cancellation. These various combinations are employed in any of the amplifier input stage, in intermediat... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7076009 | Low power CDMA receiver The present embodiments provide apparatuses and methods for use in receiving radio frequency signals. In some embodiments, a method receives an input signal comprising data and jamming signals, amplifies the input signal according to a first adjustable bias level an... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075377 | Quadrature voltage controlled oscillators with phase shift detector In wireless application there is made use of a quadrature oscillators that generate signals that are capable of oscillating at quadrature of each other. The quadrature oscillator is comprised of two differential modified Colpitts oscillators. A capacitor bank allows... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7057435 | Distributed delay-locked-based clock and data recovery systems A clock and data recovery system using a distributed variable delay line is provided. The clock and data recovery system can use a delay-locked loop methodology to align a local clock with an incoming data stream. The variable delay line can include a transmission l... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7042317 | High-frequency active inductor An active inductor circuit implemented in sub-micron CMOS semiconductor technology is usable at gigaHertz frequencies and includes an input node, a non-inverting transconductor circuit comprising a differential pair of NMOS transistors connected to the input node, a... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7012487 | Transconductance device employing native MOS transistors A system on chip such as a radio receiver has reduced suceptibility to voltages in the bulk silicon by using gyrator elements in the receiver with each gyrator element including a plurality of current sources interconnected to provide output transconductance voltage... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6995619 | Quadrature voltage controlled oscillator capable of varying a phase difference between an in-phase output signal and a quadrature output signal Provided is a quadrature voltage controlled oscillator capable of varying a phase difference between an in-phase output signal and a quadrature output signal. The quadrature voltage controlled oscillator comprises a first voltage controlled oscillator, a second volt... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6970048 | Inductive-capacitive (LC) based quadrature voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) with deterministic quadrature signal phase relationship A circuit and method for generating quadrature signals with a deterministic phase relationship. Between two inductive-capacitive (LC) based quadrature voltage controlled oscillators (VCO), phase shift circuitry is interposed such that the individual LC VCO circuits ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6963252 | Controllable oscillator with amplitude stabilization Controllable oscillator circuit comprising a regenerative loop which incorporates a cascade circuit of first and second sections each having a controllable gain and a phase shift which is 90° at the oscillation frequency, the first and second sections comprising fi... | 11/08/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6937107 | Device and method of quadrature oscillation Briefly, devices and methods for tuning of quadrature oscillators which may be used, for example, in a Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) process. Devices and methods in accordance with some exemplary embodiments of the invention may allow, for example, ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6903614 | Oscillator having an AC-coupling between fundamental frequency ground points A method of locking a first differential oscillator with a second differential oscillator and a circuit and an arrangement therefor. The method comprises AC coupling a fundamental frequency AC-ground of the first differential oscillator with a fundamental frequency ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6891444 | Oscillator circuit for locking two or more LC-oscillators by mutual inductance coupling A method of locking a first LC-oscillator with a second LC-oscillator and a circuit and an arrangement therefore. The method comprises coupling by mutual inductance a resonance inductor of the first LC-oscillator with a resonance inductor of the second LC-oscillator... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6750727 | Low phase noise MOS LC oscillator A cross-coupled differential MOS oscillator having reduced phase noise is applicable to a RF communication device such as a transmitter or receiver. The oscillator having low phase noise is formed of a frequency dependent amplifier to amplify a signal having a funda... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6683508 | System and method of increasing a self-resonant frequency of a tuning circuit and an oscillator employing the same A segmented inductor for use with a tuning circuit, a method of increasing a self-resonant frequency of a tuning circuit and an oscillator employing the circuit and method. In one embodiment, the tuning circuit includes a first inductive element having a ... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6535071 | CMOS voltage controlled phase shift oscillator Structures and methods for CMOS voltage controlled phase shift oscillators are provided. The CMOS voltage controlled phase shift oscillators, or phase shift circuit, includes any odd number of stages coupled in series. Each stage includes a CMOS amplifier... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6504441 | Voltage controlled oscillator with selectable frequency range A frequency sweep voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), with a selectable range of output frequencies is provided. The VCO includes a frequency range circuit to accept an input signal, differentially delay the signal, and selectably sum the delayed signals... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6462626 | Quadrature output oscillator device A quadrature output oscillator device (22) includes a first voltage controlled oscillator (40) and a second voltage controlled oscillator (44). The second voltage controlled oscillator (44) generates a first output (C) and a second output (D) to drive a f... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6404308 | Phase-compensated impedance converter Integrated circuits, for example, gyrator circuits include transistors that are preferably MOS devices and that are provided with series feedback networks, which compensate for the effects of channel delay in the MOS devices.... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6396360 | Method and circuitry for implementing an inductor-capacitor phase interpolated voltage-controlled oscillator Method and circuitry for implementing an inductor-capacitor voltage-controlled oscillator with improved overall performance. In an exemplary embodiment, the present invention includes two phase shifters and an interpolator. The two phase shifters are coup... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6344778 | Voltage-controlled oscillator, phase synchronization circuit and signal processing circuit A delay-time variable filter delays an input signal by a desired time according to a control signal from a control input node and outputs the delayed input signal, and a positive feedback loop circuit changes the output signal (sinusoidal wave signal) fro... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6239661 | Transmitter and an oscillator network for use in the transmitter A transmitter having an integratable quadrature oscillator network for simultaneously producing a sine wave and a cosine wave. The digital direction of rotation (whether the frequency is positive or negative) input is slow rate limited (R, C3) and fed int... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6215368 | Voltage controlled oscillating device Voltage controlling/oscillating device comprises a terminal for setting the delay rate in the delay unit and the delay interpolator. Clock signal whose phase is inverted by the inverting gate is inputted into a first input terminal of the delay interpolat... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6204733 | Multiple-phase-interpolation LC voltage-controlled oscillator A phase interpolation voltage controlled oscillator (VCO). In one embodiment, the VCO is a multiple phase interpolation VCO. The multiple phase interpolation VCO includes a plurality of phase shifting cells each receiving an oscillating signal, and each p... | 03/20/2001 |
