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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8183939 | Ring oscillator A ring oscillator has at least one latch connected to the outputs of at least one oscillator stage, where the latch drives the outputs of the oscillator stage to opposite states during startup, and drive strength reduction circuitry to reduce drive strength of the l... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8174329 | Power management architecture and method of modulating oscillator frequency based on voltage supply A method and system for modulating logic clock oscillator frequency based on voltage supply. The system comprises a logic unit having a logic operation and a device to produce self-adjusting clocks to match the logic operation. The device is configured to use supply... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169267 | Wave reversing system and method for a rotary traveling wave oscillator Circuitry for establishing a traveling wave on a rotary traveling wave oscillator is described. The circuitry includes a gain portion that establishes a wave in a preferred direction by degenerating any wave traveling opposite to the preferred direction and regenera... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169268 | Oscillation circuit and semiconductor device having the same An oscillation circuit, and a semiconductor device incorporating same, include: an oscillation unit with a plurality of inverters and configured to perform signal transmission between first and second nodes of the inverters such that each of the inverters performs a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8154352 | Oscillating circuit An oscillating circuit includes N nodes outputting oscillating signals, a main loop circuit including N inverting circuits, and a plurality of auxiliary loop circuits. Each inverting circuit in the auxiliary loop circuits is connected in parallel with even numbers o... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154353 | Operating parameter monitor for an integrated circuit An integrated circuit 2 is provided with one or more monitoring circuits 14, 16, 18, 20 in the form of ring oscillators 22. These ring oscillators 22 include a plurality of tri-state inverters 24, 26, 28 containing a current-limiti... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8138843 | Gated ring oscillator for a time-to-digital converter with shaped quantization noise Described is a compact, lower power gated ring oscillator time-to-digital converter that achieves first order noise shaping of quantization noise using a digital implementation. The gated ring oscillator time-to-digital converter includes a plurality of delay stages... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8130048 | Local oscillator Equal numbers of variable capacitance elements, capacitance values of which are separately controlled according to a logic value of a corresponding bit of a delay control signal that is in a one-to-one relation with an oscillation frequency, are connected in paralle... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8120434 | Method and device for measuring impedance The invention relates to a method and system and microchip for determining impedance of a variable impedance component. The method comprises tuning a tunable oscillator over a predefined tuning range, the tunable oscillator having the variable impedance component co... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120435 | PLL circuit and semiconductor device having the same A PLL circuit includes a phase detector, a loop filter (LF), a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), and a frequency divider. The phase detector compares a phase of a signal Fs which is input from outside with a phase of a signal Fo/N which is input from the frequenc... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115559 | Oscillator for providing a constant oscillation signal, and a signal processing device including the oscillator An oscillator including a current bias circuit and a ring oscillator. The current bias circuit tracks a temperature change of the oscillator by using a control voltage and generates a plurality of bias voltages to supply a bias current according to the temperature c... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115560 | Ring-shaped voltage control oscillator In one embodiment, a circuit topology for use in an n-phase voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) or injection-locked frequency divider includes a transmission line ring having n transmission line delay segments connected at n junctions, where n is an integer greater ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8106716 | Oscillator, oscillator implementations and method of generating an oscillating signal One embodiment of the oscillator includes a first starved inverter and a second starved inverter. An inner inverter of the second starved inverter is cross-coupled to an inner inverter of the first starved inverter. The oscillator further includes a first inverter c... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8089319 | Wide range interpolative voltage controlled oscillator Systems and methods for increasing the frequency range of an output signal generated by a VCO, where one or more variable delay units are incorporated into an interpolative VCO to decrease the minimum frequency at which the VCO oscillates. In one embodiment, the VCO... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089320 | Differential amplifier and oscillator In one embodiment, the differential amplifier (DA) includes a first inverter inverting a first input signal and outputting the inverted first input signal to a current supply controller and a current drain controller. A second inverter inverts the first input signal... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8081038 | Ring oscillator having wide frequency range Provided is a ring oscillator having an extended range of oscillation frequency by varactors coupled to delay cells even in a simple structure. The wide frequency range results from simply varying an oscillation frequency by control signals applied to the varactors.... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081037 | Ring oscillator using analog parallelism An apparatus including a ring oscillator and related methods are disclosed. The ring oscillator includes at least two ring loops. A first ring loop includes a plurality of series coupled delay cells. At least one additional ring loop includes a plurality of series c... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8076980 | Temperature-compensated ring oscillator A temperature-compensated ring oscillator includes a control signal generator and a voltage controlled oscillator. The control signal generator is configured to generate at least one control signal, and includes at least one first resistor and second resistor. A fir... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072274 | Oscillation circuit A differential oscillation circuit according to the present invention is a differential oscillation circuit including a feedback loop circuit. The differential oscillation circuit includes: delay, circuits, cascade-connected one after another on the feedback loop ci... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072275 | Digital ring oscillator A digital ring oscillator outputting a toggled clock signal. The clock signal is generated by a plurality of electronic cells that are arranged in series. At least one of the plurality of electronic cells receives a feedback of the clock signal. Control signals are ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8054139 | Voltage-controlled oscillator topology A voltage-controlled oscillator is implemented with a succession of delay cells coupled in series to form an oscillator loop. The oscillator loop is supplied with reference voltages produced by a voltage generator. The reference voltages produce stable operation of ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054140 | Low voltage oscillator for medical devices Low voltage oscillators that provide a stable output frequency with varying supply voltage are provided. The subject oscillators find use in a variety of different types of devices, e.g., medical devices, including both implantable and ex-vivo devices. ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8049570 | Coupled bi-stable microcircuit system for ultra-sensitive electrical and magnetic field sensing An electrical/magnetic current sensing system includes a first collection mechanism configured to convert an electric field into surface charge, a second collection mechanism comprising a magnetic reactive material, and a sensor coupled to the first and second colle... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8044728 | Circuit and method for measuring the performance parameters of transistors An integrated circuit may include an inverter which may include a first transistor of a first conductivity type and a second transistor of a second conductivity type connected in parallel with the first transistor. An input of the inverter may be capable of receivin... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8044727 | Phased locked loop circuit including voltage controlled ring oscillator There is provided a voltage controlled ring oscillator having a plurality of ring-connected amplifiers (401), and a plurality of variable capacitance elements (502a, 502b) being respectively connected to the plurality of amplifiers... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8044729 | Phase locked loop and voltage controlled oscillator thereof A phase locked loop (PLL) and a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) thereof are provided. The VCO includes a ring oscillator circuit and a control circuit. The ring oscillator circuit is used for providing an output clock signal; and the control circuit is coupled t... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040196 | Digitally controlled oscillator A digitally controlled oscillator includes a ring oscillator, a parallel resistor bank connected to a first terminal of the ring oscillator and having a resistance that varies according to a digital code, and a serial resistor bank connected to a second terminal of ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040195 | Current source device, oscillator device and pulse generator A current source device that cuts off an output current when stopped and obtains a desired output current upon start-up includes a first circuit having a first FET and resistors in series, a second circuit having second and third FETs in series with a point between ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037431 | Structure for interleaved voltage controlled oscillator A design structure embodied in a machine readable medium used in a design process includes an interleaved voltage-controlled oscillator, including a ring circuit of main logic inverter gates; a plurality of delay elements connected in parallel with a selected sequen... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8035453 | Techniques relating to oscillators An oscillator circuit includes differential variable delay circuits coupled together to form a ring oscillator. Each of the differential variable delay circuits has first and second inputs and first, second, third, and fourth transistors. A constant supply voltage i... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031011 | Digitally controlled oscillators Oscillator circuitry is provided that is based on a ring of inverters. The ring of inverters may be single-ended or differential inverters. Digitally controlled adjustable load capacitors may be provided at inverter outputs to tune the oscillator circuitry. Each dig... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7973609 | Digitally-controlled oscillator, frequency synthesizer and radio communication device A frequency synthesizer includes a digitally-controlled oscillator and an oscillation frequency control unit. The digitally-controlled oscillator includes a loop-shaped transmission line path having an odd number of parallel portions in each of which two conductors ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7969250 | Structure for a programmable interpolative voltage controlled oscillator with adjustable range A design structure for a programmable interpolative voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) with adjustable frequency range output is provided. Programmable delay cells whose size is modifiable based on control inputs to the programmable delay cells are utilized. A diff... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965145 | Voltage-controlled oscillator circuit including level shifter A voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) circuit includes a level shifter, and a semiconductor device includes the VCO circuit. The VCO circuit includes an input voltage receiver, a current mirror, and a frequency oscillator. The input voltage receiver receives a first... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7936225 | Voltage controlled oscillator circuit, phase-locked loop circuit using the voltage controlled oscillator circuit, and semiconductor device provided with the same A VCO circuit includes: a control portion to which a first voltage is inputted and from which a second voltage corresponding to the first voltage is outputted; a current source portion to which the second voltage is inputted and from which a current corresponding to... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7924102 | Symmetric load delay cell oscillator An oscillator includes a control circuit and a ring of symmetric load delay cells. Each delay cell includes two novel symmetric loads. Each load involves a level shift circuit and a diode-connected transistor coupled in parallel with a current source-connected trans... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7915963 | Current controlled oscillation device and method having wide frequency range A current controlled, phase locked loop device includes a phase detector configured to compare a reference frequency to an output frequency of a current controlled oscillator (ICO), a charge pump coupled to the phase detector and a low pass filter coupled to the cha... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7915964 | Variable frequency oscillating circuit A variable frequency oscillating circuit has an oscillating circuit that undergoes an oscillation operation. The oscillating circuit has at least one inverter and at least one capacitor forming a circuit in a ring oscillator configuration. A current circuit outputs ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7911282 | Voltage-controlled oscillator including plurality of delay cells A voltage-controlled oscillator includes a delay circuit. The delay circuit includes a first buffer inverter which receives one of the differential input signal and outputs an other of the differential output signal, a second buffer inverter which receives the other... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7893777 | Voltage controlled oscillation circuit In a voltage controlled oscillation circuit including a cascade connection of a voltage-to-current conversion circuit (310) for generating an input voltage converted current which is a current corresponding to an input voltage and a current controlled oscilla... | 02/22/2011 |
