Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Digitally controlled varactor structure for high resolution DCO
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Application No.: US15370004Application Date: 2016-12-06
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Publication No.: US10332960B2Publication Date: 2019-06-25
- Inventor: Chi Zhang
- Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
- Applicant Address: KY Grand Cayman
- Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
- Current Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
- Current Assignee Address: KY Grand Cayman
- Agency: Hoffman Warnick LLC
- Agent David Cain
- Main IPC: H03B5/12
- IPC: H03B5/12 ; H01L27/08 ; H01L27/12 ; H01L29/06 ; H01L29/76 ; H01L29/93 ; H01L29/94

Abstract:
A digitally controlled varactor device comprising: a set of bulk nMOS field effect transistors bulk tied to a ground, the set bulk nMOS field effect transistors having: a first transistor including: a source coupled to a DC voltage source; and a gate coupled to a digitally controlled oscillator; a second transistor including: a source coupled to the DC voltage source; and a gate coupled to the digitally controlled oscillator; and a third transistor including: a source coupled to a drain of the first transistor; and a drain coupled to a drain of the second transistor. The transistors in the digitally controlled varactor may be FDSOI nMOS devices with backgate coupled to a DC voltage source.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180159471A1 DIGITALLY CONTROLLED VARACTOR STRUCTURE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION DCO Public/Granted day:2018-06-07
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