Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Crystal driver circuit with core amplifier having unbalanced tune capacitors
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Application No.: US15639267Application Date: 2017-06-30
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Publication No.: US10574185B2Publication Date: 2020-02-25
- Inventor: Tiago Marques , John Khoury
- Applicant: SILICON LABORATORIES INC.
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
- Current Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Agency: Huffman Law Group, PC
- Agent Gary Stanford
- Main IPC: H03B5/36
- IPC: H03B5/36 ; H03B5/04

Abstract:
A crystal driver circuit for driving a crystal to oscillate at a resonant frequency including an amplifier having an input coupled to an amplifier input node and having an output coupled to an amplifier output node, a current source that provides a core bias current to the amplifier, a first tune capacitor coupled between the amplifier output node and a reference node, and a second tune capacitor coupled between the amplifier input node and the reference node. The first tune capacitor has a first capacitance that is greater than a second capacitance of the second tune capacitor by a capacitance offset that reduces frequency shift during operation. The first and second capacitances have a combined capacitance that achieves an oscillating signal having a target frequency.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190006991A1 CRYSTAL DRIVER CIRCUIT WITH CORE AMPLIFIER HAVING UNBALANCED TUNE CAPACITORS Public/Granted day:2019-01-03
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