Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for reduced area tunable capacitors
- Patent Title (中): 减小面积可调电容器的系统和方法
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Application No.: US12546397Application Date: 2009-08-24
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Publication No.: US08446229B2Publication Date: 2013-05-21
- Inventor: Amir Hadji-Abdolhamid , Hooman Darabi
- Applicant: Amir Hadji-Abdolhamid , Hooman Darabi
- Applicant Address: US CA Irvine
- Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
- Current Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Irvine
- Agency: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
- Main IPC: H03H11/00
- IPC: H03H11/00 ; H01G5/00

Abstract:
Embodiments of a capacitive tuning system implementing a tunable capacitive array are presented herein. The tunable capacitive array includes both scaled coarse capacitors and one or more fine capacitors. The one or more fine capacitors advantageously reduce a differential nonlinearity associated with the scaled coarse capacitors. The use of fine capacitors limits additional area requirements in an integrated circuit implementation, while improving the accuracy of the capacitive tuning system.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110025436A1 System and Method for Reduced Area Tunable Capacitors Public/Granted day:2011-02-03
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