公开(公告)号：US06930545B2

公开(公告)日：2005-08-16

申请号：US10918550

申请日：2004-08-16

申请人： Tom W. Kwan ,  Ralph Duncan ,  Frank W. Singor

发明人： Tom W. Kwan ,  Ralph Duncan ,  Frank W. Singor

IPC分类号： H03F3/00 ,  H03F3/45 ,  H03F1/02

CPC分类号： H03F3/45645 ,  H03F3/005 ,  H03F3/45179 ,  H03F3/45188 ,  H03F3/45654 ,  H03F2203/45394 ,  H03F2203/45421 ,  H03F2203/45651

摘要： Provided is a switched capacitor feedback circuit including two or more input ports configured to receive a corresponding a number of input signals and at least one output port. The output port is configured to output an adjusting signal. The input signals includes a number of primary signals and two or more reference signals that are associated with a first timing phase of operation. The adjusting signal is produced based upon a comparison between the primary signals the reference signals. Also provided is a pair of active devices having gates coupled together and structured to receive the adjusting signal. The active devices are configured to provide a gain to the adjusting signal in accordance with a predetermined gain factor, and facilitate an adjustment to the number of primary signals based upon the gain during a second timing phase of operation.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种开关电容器反馈电路，其包括被配置为接收对应的多个输入信号和至少一个输出端口的两个或多个输入端口。 输出端口配置为输出调整信号。 输入信号包括与第一定时相位相关联的多个主信号和两个或更多个参考信号。 基于主信号之间的参考信号的比较产生调整信号。 还提供了一对具有耦合在一起并被构造成接收调节信号的门的有源器件。 有源器件被配置为根据预定的增益因子向调整信号提供增益，并且有助于在操作的第二定时阶段期间基于增益来调整主信号的数量。

公开(公告)号：US20050174166A1

公开(公告)日：2005-08-11

申请号：US11104496

申请日：2005-04-13

申请人： Ralph Duncan ,  Chun-Ying Chen ,  Young Shin

发明人： Ralph Duncan ,  Chun-Ying Chen ,  Young Shin

IPC分类号： H04H20/00 ,  H03D3/00 ,  H03D7/14 ,  H03H11/04 ,  H03B1/00

CPC分类号： H03H11/04 ,  H03D3/008 ,  H03D7/1441 ,  H03D7/1458 ,  H03D7/1483 ,  H03D7/165 ,  H03D2200/0025 ,  H03D2200/0043 ,  H03D2200/0047 ,  H04B1/30

摘要： An integrated circuit formed on a semiconductor chip, comprising a low pass filter circuit having a first resistor of a first resistance value and a capacitor of a first capacitance value, wherein the first resistance value and the first capacitance value determine a corner frequency of the filter; and a tuning circuit having a second resistor of a second resistance value, a switched-capacitor of a third resistance value and a comparator that compares two voltage signals to produce a control signal, wherein the control signal adjusts the first and second resistance values as a function of the third resistance value. The corner frequency of the filter can be adjusted by varying one or more reference voltage signals. In combination, the corner frequency of the filter is adjusted by changing the frequency of a clock that controls the switched-capacitor to decrease the circuit sensitivity.

公开(公告)号：US06781451B2

公开(公告)日：2004-08-24

申请号：US10425719

申请日：2003-04-30

申请人： Tom W. Kwan ,  Ralph Duncan ,  Frank W. Singor

发明人： Tom W. Kwan ,  Ralph Duncan ,  Frank W. Singor

IPC分类号： H03F102

CPC分类号： H03F3/45645 ,  H03F3/005 ,  H03F3/45179 ,  H03F3/45188 ,  H03F3/45654 ,  H03F2203/45394 ,  H03F2203/45421 ,  H03F2203/45651

摘要： Provided is a switched capacitor feedback circuit including two or more input ports configured to receive a corresponding a number of input signals and at least one output port. The output port is configured to output an adjusting signal. The input signals includes a number of primary signals and two or more reference signals that are associated with a first timing phase of operation. The adjusting signal is produced based upon a comparison between the primary signals the reference signals. Also provided is a pair of active devices having gates coupled together and structured to receive the adjusting signal. The active devices are configured to provide a gain to the adjusting signal in accordance with a predetermined gain factor, and facilitate an adjustment to the number of primary signals based upon the gain during a second timing phase of operation.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种开关电容器反馈电路，其包括被配置为接收对应的多个输入信号和至少一个输出端口的两个或多个输入端口。 输出端口配置为输出调整信号。 输入信号包括与第一定时相位相关联的多个主信号和两个或更多个参考信号。 基于主信号之间的参考信号的比较产生调整信号。 还提供了一对具有耦合在一起并被构造成接收调节信号的门的有源器件。 有源器件被配置为根据预定的增益因子向调整信号提供增益，并且有助于在操作的第二定时阶段期间基于增益来调整主信号的数量。

公开(公告)号：US06426680B1

公开(公告)日：2002-07-30

申请号：US09580014

申请日：2000-05-26

申请人： Ralph Duncan ,  Tom W. Kwan

发明人： Ralph Duncan ,  Tom W. Kwan

IPC分类号： H03L7099

CPC分类号： H03L7/23 ,  H01F17/0006 ,  H01F17/0013 ,  H01F2017/0053 ,  H01F2021/125 ,  H01L23/5227 ,  H01L27/0248 ,  H01L27/08 ,  H01L2924/0002 ,  H01L2924/09701 ,  H01L2924/3011 ,  H03B5/1209 ,  H03B5/1212 ,  H03B5/1228 ,  H03B5/1253 ,  H03B5/364 ,  H03B2200/0038 ,  H03B2201/025 ,  H03B2201/0266 ,  H03D7/161 ,  H03D7/18 ,  H03G1/0029 ,  H03H11/1291 ,  H03J1/0075 ,  H03J3/04 ,  H03J3/08 ,  H03J3/185 ,  H03J2200/10 ,  H03L1/023 ,  H03L7/10 ,  H01L2924/00

摘要： An integrated VCO having an improved tuning range over process and temperature variations. There is therefore provided in a present embodiment of the invention an integrated VCO. The VCO comprises, a substrate, a VCO tuning control circuit responsive to a VCO state variable that is disposed upon the substrate, and a VCO disposed upon the substrate, having a tuning control voltage input falling within a VCO tuning range for adjusting a VCO frequency output, and having its tuning range adjusted by the tuning control circuit in response to the VCO state variable.

摘要翻译： 具有改进的调谐范围超过过程和温度变化的集成VCO。 因此，在本发明的本实施例中提供了集成VCO。 VCO包括：衬底，响应于设置在衬底上的VCO状态变量的VCO调谐控制电路，以及设置在衬底上的VCO，具有落在VCO调谐范围内的调谐控制电压输入，用于调节VCO频率 输出，并且其调谐范围由调谐控制电路响应于VCO状态变量而调整。

公开(公告)号：US20080284919A1

公开(公告)日：2008-11-20

申请号：US12219925

申请日：2008-07-30

申请人： Pieter Vorenkamp ,  Klaas Bult ,  Frank Carr ,  Christopher M. Ward ,  Ralph Duncan ,  Tom W. Kwan ,  James Y.C. Chang ,  Haideh Khorramabadi

发明人： Pieter Vorenkamp ,  Klaas Bult ,  Frank Carr ,  Christopher M. Ward ,  Ralph Duncan ,  Tom W. Kwan ,  James Y.C. Chang ,  Haideh Khorramabadi

IPC分类号： H04N5/50 ,  H04N5/44

CPC分类号： H03D3/18 ,  H01F17/0006 ,  H01F17/0013 ,  H01F27/34 ,  H01F27/40 ,  H01F27/42 ,  H01F2017/0053 ,  H01F2021/125 ,  H01L23/5227 ,  H01L27/0248 ,  H01L27/0251 ,  H01L27/08 ,  H01L2924/0002 ,  H01L2924/3011 ,  H03B5/04 ,  H03B5/364 ,  H03D7/161 ,  H03D7/18 ,  H03F1/26 ,  H03F1/3211 ,  H03F3/195 ,  H03F3/45183 ,  H03F3/45188 ,  H03F3/68 ,  H03F3/72 ,  H03F2200/111 ,  H03F2200/294 ,  H03F2200/372 ,  H03F2200/447 ,  H03F2200/63 ,  H03F2203/45264 ,  H03F2203/45286 ,  H03G1/0023 ,  H03G1/0029 ,  H03G3/3052 ,  H03H7/25 ,  H03H11/04 ,  H03H11/1291 ,  H03H11/53 ,  H03H11/54 ,  H03H19/004 ,  H03J1/0075 ,  H03J3/04 ,  H03J3/08 ,  H03J3/185 ,  H03J2200/10 ,  H03L7/10 ,  H03L7/183 ,  H03L7/23 ,  H03L2207/06 ,  H01L2924/00

摘要： An integrated receiver with channel selection and image rejection substantially implemented on a single CMOS integrated circuit is described. A receiver front end provides programmable attenuation and a programmable gain low noise amplifier. Frequency conversion circuitry advantageously uses LC filters integrated onto the substrate in conjunction with image reject mixers to provide sufficient image frequency rejection. Filter tuning and inductor Q compensation over temperature are performed on chip. The filters utilize multi track spiral inductors. The filters are tuned using local oscillators to tune a substitute filter, and frequency scaling during filter component values to those of the filter being tuned. In conjunction with filtering, frequency planning provides additional image rejection. The advantageous choice of local oscillator signal generation methods on chip is by PLL out of band local oscillation and by direct synthesis for in band local oscillator. The VCOs in the PLLs are centered using a control circuit to center the tuning capacitance range. A differential crystal oscillator is advantageously used as a frequency reference. Differential signal transmission is advantageously used throughout the receiver.

摘要翻译： 描述了基本上在单个CMOS集成电路上实现的具有信道选择和图像抑制的集成接收机。 接收机前端提供可编程衰减和可编程增益低噪声放大器。 频率转换电路有利地使用集成到衬底上的LC滤波器与图像抑制混合器结合，以提供足够的图像频率抑制。 过滤器调谐和电感Q补偿温度在芯片上执行。 滤波器采用多轨螺旋电感。 使用本地振荡器调整滤波器以调整替代滤波器，以及滤波器组件值期间的频率缩放与被调谐的滤波器的频率缩放。 结合滤波，频率规划提供了额外的镜像抑制。 片上本地振荡器信号产生方法的有利选择是通过PLL带外本地振荡和通过频带本地振荡器的直接合成。 PLL中的VCO使用控制电路居中，使调谐电容范围居中。 差分晶体振荡器有利地用作频率参考。 差分信号传输有利地用于整个接收机。

公开(公告)号：US06803829B2

公开(公告)日：2004-10-12

申请号：US10171762

申请日：2002-06-17

申请人： Ralph Duncan ,  Tom W. Kwan

发明人： Ralph Duncan ,  Tom W. Kwan

IPC分类号： H03B512

CPC分类号： H03L7/23 ,  H01F17/0006 ,  H01F17/0013 ,  H01F2017/0053 ,  H01F2021/125 ,  H01L23/5227 ,  H01L27/0248 ,  H01L27/08 ,  H01L2924/0002 ,  H01L2924/09701 ,  H01L2924/3011 ,  H03B5/1209 ,  H03B5/1212 ,  H03B5/1228 ,  H03B5/1253 ,  H03B5/364 ,  H03B2200/0038 ,  H03B2201/025 ,  H03B2201/0266 ,  H03D7/161 ,  H03D7/18 ,  H03G1/0029 ,  H03H11/1291 ,  H03J1/0075 ,  H03J3/04 ,  H03J3/08 ,  H03J3/185 ,  H03J2200/10 ,  H03L1/023 ,  H03L7/10 ,  H01L2924/00

摘要： An integrated VCO having an improved tuning range over process and temperature variations. There is therefore provided in a present embodiment of the invention an integrated VCO. The VCO comprises, a substrate, a VCO tuning control circuit responsive to a VCO state variable that is disposed upon the substrate, and a VCO disposed upon the substrate, having a tuning control voltage input falling within a VCO tuning range for adjusting a VCO frequency output, and having its tuning range adjusted by the tuning control circuit in response to the VCO state variable.

摘要翻译： 具有改进的调谐范围超过过程和温度变化的集成VCO。 因此，在本发明的本实施例中提供了集成VCO。 VCO包括：衬底，响应于设置在衬底上的VCO状态变量的VCO调谐控制电路，以及设置在衬底上的VCO，具有落在VCO调谐范围内的调谐控制电压输入，用于调节VCO频率 输出，并且其调谐范围由调谐控制电路响应于VCO状态变量而调整。