发明授权
- 专利标题: Apparatus and method for integrating self-test oscillator with injection locked buffer
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申请号: US16157230申请日: 2018-10-11
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公开(公告)号: US10942255B2公开(公告)日: 2021-03-09
- 发明人: Arul Balasubramaniyan , Abdellatif Bellaouar
- 申请人: GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. Inc.
- 申请人地址: US CA Santa Clara
- 专利权人: GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. Inc.
- 当前专利权人: GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. Inc.
- 当前专利权人地址: US CA Santa Clara
- 代理机构: Hoffman Warnick LLC
- 代理商 David Cain
- 主分类号: G01S7/40
- IPC分类号: G01S7/40 ; H03F3/45 ; H03B5/12 ; H01L27/12 ; H03F3/195 ; H01L29/786 ; H01L29/06 ; H04B1/16
摘要:
The disclosure provides an apparatus including: a pair of signal injection transistors each having a gate terminal coupled to a differential reference signal, and a pair of cross-coupled amplifier transistors configured to amplify a voltage of the differential reference signal to yield a voltage-amplified reference signal at a local oscillator (LO) port of a mixer; an electronic oscillator having an oscillation output node coupled to the LO port of the mixer in parallel with the injection-locked buffer, and configured to generate an oscillator output for transmission to the output node based on a back gate bias voltage applied to the electronic oscillator; and an access transistor having a gate coupled to a switching node, and a back gate terminal coupled to the back gate bias voltage, wherein the access transistor is configured to enable or disable current flow through the electronic oscillator in parallel with the injection-locked buffer.
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