Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus and method for integrating self-test oscillator with injection locked buffer
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Application No.: US16157230Application Date: 2018-10-11
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Publication No.: US10942255B2Publication Date: 2021-03-09
- Inventor: Arul Balasubramaniyan , Abdellatif Bellaouar
- Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. Inc.
- Current Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Hoffman Warnick LLC
- Agent David Cain
- Main IPC: G01S7/40
- IPC: G01S7/40 ; H03F3/45 ; H03B5/12 ; H01L27/12 ; H03F3/195 ; H01L29/786 ; H01L29/06 ; H04B1/16

Abstract:
The disclosure provides an apparatus including: a pair of signal injection transistors each having a gate terminal coupled to a differential reference signal, and a pair of cross-coupled amplifier transistors configured to amplify a voltage of the differential reference signal to yield a voltage-amplified reference signal at a local oscillator (LO) port of a mixer; an electronic oscillator having an oscillation output node coupled to the LO port of the mixer in parallel with the injection-locked buffer, and configured to generate an oscillator output for transmission to the output node based on a back gate bias voltage applied to the electronic oscillator; and an access transistor having a gate coupled to a switching node, and a back gate terminal coupled to the back gate bias voltage, wherein the access transistor is configured to enable or disable current flow through the electronic oscillator in parallel with the injection-locked buffer.
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