Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Oscillator circuits and methods to compensate frequency pulling
- Patent Title (中): 振荡电路及补偿方法
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Application No.: US14741731Application Date: 2015-06-17
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Publication No.: US09257996B2Publication Date: 2016-02-09
- Inventor: Angelo Scuderi , Antonino Calcagno , Salvatore Scaccianoce
- Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
- Applicant Address: IT Agrate Brianza (MB)
- Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
- Current Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
- Current Assignee Address: IT Agrate Brianza (MB)
- Agency: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.
- Priority: ITMI2014A1189 20140630
- Main IPC: H03K7/00
- IPC: H03K7/00 ; H03L7/02 ; H04B1/38 ; H04B7/00 ; H03L7/18 ; H04L25/49

Abstract:
An oscillator circuit may include a local oscillator to generate a carrier signal having a tunable frequency, a first modulator and a power amplifier coupled in cascade to the local oscillator to generate an output signal. The first modulator may be activated from a first modulating signal having a first frequency alternatively defining ON and OFF states of the first modulator. An estimator unit may receive the carrier signal during a time window and detect an estimated frequency variation of the carrier signal during the ON and OFF states. A compensation unit may include a second modulator to generate a compensation signal proportional to the estimated frequency variation and modulated with a second modulating frequency. The second modulating frequency may be substantially the same as the first modulating frequency, and the compensation signal may be added to a bias signal of the local oscillator to tune the tunable frequency.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150381186A1 OSCILLATOR CIRCUITS AND METHODS TO COMPENSATE FREQUENCY PULLING Public/Granted day:2015-12-31
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