- Patent Title: Integrated circuit having a multiplying injection-locked oscillator
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Application No.: US15390362Application Date: 2016-12-23
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Publication No.: US10404262B2Publication Date: 2019-09-03
- Inventor: Jared L. Zerbe , Barry W. Daly , Dustin T. Dunwell , Anthony C. Carusone , John C. Eble, III
- Applicant: Rambus Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: Rambus Inc.
- Current Assignee: Rambus Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Park, Vaughan, Fleming & Dowler LLP
- Agent Laxman Sahasrabuddhe
- Main IPC: H03L7/24
- IPC: H03L7/24 ; H03K3/03 ; H03B27/00 ; H03K5/133 ; H03K5/156

Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses featuring a multiplying injection-locked oscillator are described. Some embodiments include a pulse-generator-and-injector and one or more injection-locked oscillators. The outputs of the pulse-generator-and-injector can be injected into corresponding injection points of an injection-locked oscillator. In embodiments that include multiple injection-locked oscillators, the outputs of each injection-locked oscillator can be injected into the corresponding injection points of the next injection-locked oscillator. Some embodiments reduce deterministic jitter by dynamically modifying the loop length of an injection-locked oscillator, and/or by using a duty cycle corrector, and/or by multiplexing/blending the outputs from multiple delay elements of an injection-locked oscillator.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170207791A1 INTEGRATED CIRCUIT HAVING A MULTIPLYING INJECTION-LOCKED OSCILLATOR Public/Granted day:2017-07-20
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