Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Semiconductor devices and methods of operating the same
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Application No.: US16027646Application Date: 2018-07-05
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Publication No.: US10516405B2Publication Date: 2019-12-24
- Inventor: Won Sik Yu , Woo Seok Kim , Ji Hyun Kim , Tae Ik Kim
- Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KR Gyeonggi-do
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Gyeonggi-do
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: KR10-2018-0002203 20180108
- Main IPC: H03L1/00
- IPC: H03L1/00 ; H03L7/099 ; H03L7/18 ; H03L7/093 ; G04F10/00

Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a time-to-digital converter (TDC) that receives a reference frequency signal and a feedback frequency signal, and outputs a first digital signal indicating a time difference between the reference frequency signal and the feedback frequency signal; a digital loop filter (DLF) that outputs a second digital signal generated by filtering the first digital signal; a multiplier circuit that outputs one of a third digital signal and a final test signal, the third digital signal generated by performing a multiplication operation on the second digital signal using a multiplication coefficient; a digital-controlled oscillator (DCO) that generates an oscillation signal having a frequency based on the output one of the third digital signal and the final test signal; and a loop gain calibrator (LGC) that receives the oscillation signal, generates a pair of test signals, and determines the multiplication coefficient using the pair of test signals.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190214999A1 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES AND METHODS OF OPERATING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2019-07-11
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