Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Voltage-to-current converter circuit
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Application No.: US16360787Application Date: 2019-03-21
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Publication No.: US10693477B1Publication Date: 2020-06-23
- Inventor: Cristian Marcu
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Kowert, Hood, Munyon, Rankin & Goetzel, P.C.
- Main IPC: H03L7/06
- IPC: H03L7/06 ; H03L7/08 ; H03L7/099 ; H03L7/10 ; H03F3/45

Abstract:
An oscillator subsystem included in a phase-locked loop circuit of a computer system may include coarse and fine-tuning circuits. The coarse-tuning circuit may generate a coarse-tuning current based on a reference voltage, and the fine-tuning circuit may generate a fine-tuning current by combining respective currents generated by first and second complement current mirror circuits using a voltage level of a control signal. An oscillator circuit may generate a clock signal whose frequency is based on a combination of the coarse and fine-tuning circuits.
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