METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MISMATCH IN A VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR ARRAY
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    发明申请
    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MISMATCH IN A VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR ARRAY 有权
    用于控制电压控制振荡器阵列中的误配的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US20160352341A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-12-01

    申请号:US15166894

    申请日:2016-05-27

    IPC分类号: H03L7/07 H03B5/12

    摘要: A method and system are provided for reducing mismatch between oscillators in an LC VCO array. In an implementation, a method comprises measuring the mismatch between the driver strengths, by measuring the corresponding oscillation amplitudes, and a mismatch between the resonance frequency of each LC VCO in the array of VCOs, and adjusting each LC VCO to reduce the measured amplitude and frequency mismatches. In an implementation, the measuring and adjusting is performed once to calibrate the array of VCOs. In another implementation, the system measures and adjusts the array of VCOs repeatedly. In another implementation, the LC VCO array has a master VCO and a plurality of slave VCOs connected to the master VCO by slave PLLs to reduce phase noise caused by mismatches.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种减少LC VCO阵列中的振荡器之间不匹配的方法和系统。 在一个实现中,一种方法包括通过测量相应的振荡幅度和VCO中的每个LC VCO的谐振频率之间的不匹配来测量驱动器强度之间的不匹配,并且调整每个LC VCO以减小测量的幅度,以及 频率不匹配。 在一个实现中,一次执行测量和调整以校准VCO阵列。 在另一个实现中,系统重复测量和调整VCO阵列。 在另一实现中,LC VCO阵列具有主VCO和由从属PLL连接到主VCO的多个从VCO,以减少由失配引起的相位噪声。