公开(公告)号：US11239794B2

公开(公告)日：2022-02-01

申请号：US16898254

申请日：2020-06-10

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Dongseok Shin ,  Hyung Seok Kim ,  Yongping Fan

IPC: H03B5/12 ,  H03L7/24 ,  H03B19/00

Abstract: A frequency doubler (tripler, or quadrupler) employs current re-use coupled oscillator technique to enhance phase noise without increasing current consumption. Frequency doubler uses coupling between two oscillators running at different frequencies; a first oscillator is running at the target frequency and a second oscillator is running at half the frequency. The coupling between the two oscillators is via a transformer having a primary transformer coil and a secondary transformer coil. The first oscillator comprises a differential inductor, coarse/fine tuning capacitor arrays, and an n-type trans-conductor (GM). A virtual ground node of the n-type GM is coupled to one side of the primary transformer coil and the other side of the primary coil is coupled to the center tap of the secondary coil. The second oscillator comprises the secondary coil, coarse/fine tuning capacitor arrays, n-type GM, frequency tracking loop (FTL) and 2nd-harmonic LC filter network.

公开(公告)号：US20210391826A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-16

申请号：US16898254

申请日：2020-06-10

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Dongseok Shin ,  Hyung Seok Kim ,  Yongping Fan

IPC: H03B5/12 ,  H03H7/01 ,  H03K5/00

Abstract: A frequency doubler (tripler, or quadrupler) employs current re-use coupled oscillator technique to enhance phase noise without increasing current consumption. Frequency doubler uses coupling between two oscillators running at different frequencies; a first oscillator is running at the target frequency and a second oscillator is running at half the frequency. The coupling between the two oscillators is via a transformer having a primary transformer coil and a secondary transformer coil. The first oscillator comprises a differential inductor, coarse/fine tuning capacitor arrays, and an n-type trans-conductor (GM). A virtual ground node of the n-type GM is coupled to one side of the primary transformer coil and the other side of the primary coil is coupled to the center tap of the secondary coil. The second oscillator comprises the secondary coil, coarse/fine tuning capacitor arrays, n-type GM, frequency tracking loop (FTL) and 2nd-harmonic LC filter network.