Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Crystal driver circuit configurable for daisy chaining
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Application No.: US15645684Application Date: 2017-07-10
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Publication No.: US10454420B2Publication Date: 2019-10-22
- Inventor: Tiago Marques
- Applicant: SILICON LABORATORIES INC.
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
- Current Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Agent Gary Stanford; James W. Huffman
- Main IPC: H03B5/36
- IPC: H03B5/36 ; H03F3/72

Abstract:
A crystal driver integrated circuit configurable for daisy chaining including an amplifier core, an input pin and an output pin, and a controller that operates the amplifier core in any one of multiple operating modes. The operating modes include an oscillator mode for driving an external crystal coupled between the input and output pins to generate an oscillation signal at a target frequency, and an amplifier mode that amplifies an external oscillating signal provided to the input pin to provide an amplified oscillation signal on the output pin. The amplifier core includes a controllable current source that provides a core bias current to an amplifier having a level that is adjusted depending upon the operating mode and desired amplitude. The operating modes may include a bypass mode in which the amplifier core is disabled. The amplifier may be implemented as either an PMOS amplifier or an NMOS amplifier.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190006992A1 CRYSTAL DRIVER CIRCUIT CONFIGURABLE FOR DAISY CHAINING Public/Granted day:2019-01-03
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