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公开(公告)号:US10110239B1
公开(公告)日:2018-10-23
申请号:US15940681
申请日:2018-03-29
发明人: Guanghua Shu , Frankie Y. Liu , Suwen Yang , Ziad Saleh Shehadeh , Eric Y. Chang
摘要: During operation, the system uses a differential ring oscillator to generate the output clock signal. Next, the system uses a phase detector to detect errors comprising deviations between edges of the output clock signal and a reference clock signal. The system subsequently uses a frequency-tracking path to adjust a frequency of the differential ring oscillator based on the detected errors, wherein adjusting the frequency involves adjusting a supply voltage for the differential ring oscillator. The system also uses a phase-tracking path to adjust a phase of the differential ring oscillator based on the detected errors, wherein adjusting the phase involves selectively activating an injection pulse generator to inject pulses into the differential ring oscillator. Finally, the system uses a gating mechanism to periodically suppress the injected pulses produced by the injection pulse generator to enable the frequency-tracking path to detect and remediate frequency errors without interference from phase adjustments.
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公开(公告)号:US10014901B1
公开(公告)日:2018-07-03
申请号:US15484037
申请日:2017-04-10
发明人: Hua Wang , Thomas Shoutao Chen , Dongxu Chen
CPC分类号: H04B1/44 , H03F3/195 , H03F3/245 , H03F3/68 , H03F2200/111 , H03F2200/294 , H03F2200/451 , H03L7/0891 , H03L7/093 , H03L7/18 , H03L7/24 , H04W72/0453
摘要: According to one embodiment, an RF frontend IC device includes a first RF transceiver to transmit and receive RF signals within a first predetermined frequency band and a second RF transceiver to transmit and receive RF signals within a second predetermined frequency band. The RF frontend IC device further includes a full-band frequency synthesizer coupled to the first and second RF transceivers to perform frequency synthetization in a wide frequency spectrum, including the first and second frequency bands. The full-band frequency synthesizer generates a first LO signal and a second LO signal for the first RF transceiver and the second RF transceiver to enable the first RF transceiver and the second RF transceiver to transmit and receive RF signals within the first frequency band the second frequency band respectively. The first RF transceiver, the second RF transceiver, and the full-band frequency synthesizer are integrated within a single IC chip.
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公开(公告)号:US20180095493A1
公开(公告)日:2018-04-05
申请号:US15722249
申请日:2017-10-02
申请人: ROHM Co., LTD.
发明人: Makoto YASUSAKA
CPC分类号: G06F1/04 , G06F1/26 , G06F1/3203 , G06F1/3234 , H02M1/36 , H03K3/012 , H03K3/037 , H03K5/01 , H03K5/08 , H03L7/24
摘要: Disclosed herein is an enable signal generation circuit. The circuit includes: an enable input terminal that receives an enable input voltage; an enable detection circuit that determines whether the enable input voltage is higher than a first reference voltage, and then outputs an inverted signal; and an output section that is connected to the enable detection circuit. The enable detection circuit is formed of at least two transistors arranged in a differential configuration, gives the two transistors offset voltages that provide different operating voltages, and causes the output section to output a signal based on the inverted signal.
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公开(公告)号:US20180013438A1
公开(公告)日:2018-01-11
申请号:US15632063
申请日:2017-06-23
申请人: Rambus Inc.
发明人: Jared L. Zerbe , Masum Hossain
CPC分类号: H03L7/24 , H03K3/0307 , H03K3/0315 , H03L1/00 , H03L7/06
摘要: Embodiments of an integrated circuit (IC) comprising circuitry to determine settings for an injection-locked oscillator (ILO) are described. In some embodiments, an injection signal is generated based on a first clock edge of a reference clock signal, and is injected into an ILO. Next, one or more output signals of the ILO are sampled based on a second clock edge of the reference clock signal, and settings for the ILO are determined based on the samples. In some embodiments, a sequence of two or more time-to-digital (TDC) codes is generated based on a reference clock signal and a free-running ILO. In some embodiments, the TDC circuitry that is already present in a delay-locked loop is reused for determining the sequence of two or more TDC codes. The ILO settings can then be determined based on the sequence of two or more
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公开(公告)号:US09755574B2
公开(公告)日:2017-09-05
申请号:US15222421
申请日:2016-07-28
申请人: SONY CORPORATION
发明人: Jeremy Chatwin
CPC分类号: H03B1/04 , H03B2200/009 , H03K3/013 , H03K3/0315 , H03K3/0322 , H03K3/356121 , H03L7/24
摘要: Various aspects of an injection-locked oscillator and method for controlling jitter and/or phase noise are disclosed herein. In accordance with an embodiment, an injection-locked oscillator includes one or more circuits that are configured to receive a pair of complementary phase output signals from one or more gain stages of the injection-locked oscillator. The one or more circuits may be configured to receive one or more switching signals. The received pair of complementary phase output signals are shorted by use of the one or more received switching signals. The shorting reduces the phase difference between an input signal and an output signal of the injection-locked oscillator.
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公开(公告)号:US20170250696A1
公开(公告)日:2017-08-31
申请号:US15223057
申请日:2016-07-29
申请人: SK hynix Inc.
发明人: Ha Jun JEONG
CPC分类号: H03L7/24 , G06F1/04 , H03K5/01 , H03K5/1534 , H03K2005/00019
摘要: A signal recovery circuit includes a clock code generation circuit configured to generate codes in response to an enable signal and a clock, and a pulse recovery circuit configured to generate an output pulse in response to an input pulse and the codes.
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公开(公告)号:US20170207789A1
公开(公告)日:2017-07-20
申请号:US15001740
申请日:2016-01-20
发明人: David A. Czaplewski , Omar Lopez , Jeffrey R. Guest , Dario Antonio , Sebastian I. Arroyo , Damian H. Zanette
CPC分类号: H03L7/24 , G01C19/5776 , H03B5/1215 , H03B5/1218 , H03B5/1228 , H03B5/124 , H03B5/30 , H03K5/003 , H03K5/13 , H03K2005/00286 , H03L5/00
摘要: An autonomous oscillator synchronizes to an external harmonic force only when the forcing frequency lies within a certain interval, known as the synchronization range, around the oscillator's natural frequency. Under ordinary conditions, the width of the synchronization range decreases when the oscillation amplitude grows, which constrains synchronized motion of micro- and nano-mechanical resonators to narrow frequency and amplitude bounds. The present invention shows that nonlinearity in the oscillator can be exploited to manifest a regime where the synchronization range increases with an increasing oscillation amplitude. The present invention shows that nonlinearities in specific configurations of oscillator systems, as described herein, are the key determinants of the effect. The present invention presents a new configuration and operation regime that enhances the synchronization of micro- and nano-mechanical oscillators by capitalizing on their intrinsic nonlinear dynamics.
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公开(公告)号:US20170155397A1
公开(公告)日:2017-06-01
申请号:US15430182
申请日:2017-02-10
发明人: Arun Paidimarri , Danielle Griffith , Alice Wang
CPC分类号: H03L7/24 , H03B1/00 , H03B5/20 , H03B5/24 , H03B5/26 , H03B5/32 , H03B2200/0082 , H03L7/0802
摘要: Systems and methods of low power docking of sleep mode radios are disclosed herein. In an example embodiment, a crystal oscillator is purposefully mistuned to achieve lower power consumption, and then synchronized using a high frequency crystal oscillator. In an alternative embodiment, the input offset voltages of the comparator in an RC oscillator are cancelled, which allows low power operation and high accuracy performance when tuned to the high frequency crystal. A lower power comparator may be used with higher input offset voltages but still achieve higher accuracy. The RC circuit is switched back and forth on opposite phases of the output, cancelling the offset voltage on the inputs of the comparator.
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公开(公告)号:US09651579B2
公开(公告)日:2017-05-16
申请号:US14724302
申请日:2015-05-28
申请人: Tektronix, Inc.
CPC分类号: G01R13/32 , G01R13/0254 , H03L7/24
摘要: A test and measurement system for synchronizing multiple oscilloscopes including a host oscilloscope and at least one client oscilloscope. The host oscilloscope includes a host timebase clock configured to output a clock signal, a host digitizer including a digitizer synchronization clock based on the clock signal, and a host acquisition controller includes a trigger synchronization clock based the clock signal and outputs a run signal to begin an acquisition of an input signal. Each client oscilloscope includes a client timebase clock configured to receive the clock signal from the host timebase clock and output the clock signal, a client digitizer including a digitizer synchronization clock based on the clock signal, and a client acquisition controller includes a trigger synchronization clock based on the clock signal and receives the run signal from the host acquisition controller and begins an acquisition of another input signal based on the run signal.
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公开(公告)号:US09614537B1
公开(公告)日:2017-04-04
申请号:US15093655
申请日:2016-04-07
申请人: Xilinx, Inc.
CPC分类号: H03L7/24 , H03L7/0805 , H03L7/081 , H03L2207/06 , H03L2207/50
摘要: An example clock generator circuit includes a fractional reference generator configured to generate a reference clock in response to a base reference clock and a phase error signal, the reference clock having a frequency that is a rational multiple of a frequency of the base reference clock. The clock generator circuit includes a digitally controlled delay line (DCDL) that delays the reference clock based on a first control code, and a pulse generator configured to generate pulses based on the delayed reference clock. The clock generator circuit includes a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) configured to generate an output clock based on a second control code, the DCO including an injection input coupled to the pulse generator to receive the pulses. The clock generator circuit includes a phase detector configured to compare the output clock and the reference clock and generate the phase error signal, and a control circuit configured to generate the first and second control codes based on the phase error signal.
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