Invention Application
- Patent Title: LC OSCILLATOR DRIVEN BY A NEGATIVE RESISTANCE ELEMENT
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Application No.: US16248850Application Date: 2019-01-16
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Publication No.: US20200228059A1Publication Date: 2020-07-16
- Inventor: Eleazar Walter Kenyon
- Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Main IPC: H03B5/12
- IPC: H03B5/12

Abstract:
An LC oscillator architecture in which an LC tank is driven by a negative resistance element (amplifier) including first and second Vbe/Vgs multipliers cross-coupled to the LC tank. Each Vbe/Vgs multiplier circuitry including a transistor with a control terminal as a negative input, a reference terminal as a positive input, and an output terminal, a shunt resistance connected between the control terminal and the reference terminal, a series resistance connected between the control terminal and the output terminal for one of the same transistor or the other transistor, and a shorting capacitance connected between the control terminal of the transistor, and the output terminal of the transistor of the other Vbe/Vgs multiplier. An example application is an LC VCO, such as for a PLL, CDR, or retimer.
Public/Granted literature
- US11025196B2 LC oscillator driven by a negative resistance element Public/Granted day:2021-06-01
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