Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Voltage-follower based cross-coupling oscillators with embedded phase-interpolation function
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Application No.: US16382050Application Date: 2019-04-11
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Publication No.: US10742224B2Publication Date: 2020-08-11
- Inventor: Xi Chen , Sanquan Song
- Applicant: NVIDIA Corp.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: NVIDIA Corp.
- Current Assignee: NVIDIA Corp.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Rowan TELS LLC
- Main IPC: H03L7/099
- IPC: H03L7/099 ; H03K3/03 ; H03L7/07 ; H03K5/133

Abstract:
A circuit includes a first ring oscillator with a plurality of stages, each coupled via a voltage follower cross-coupling to a plurality of stages of a second ring oscillator. Further ring oscillators may be coupled to the first ring oscillator and the second ring oscillator. Additionally, the voltage follower cross-coupling for each of the stages may include one or more first voltage follower having a first strength, and one or more second voltage follower having a second strength different than the first strength.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200162082A1 VOLTAGE-FOLLOWER BASED CROSS-COUPLING OSCILLATORS WITH EMBEDDED PHASE-INTERPOLATION FUNCTION Public/Granted day:2020-05-21
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