Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Varactorless tunable oscillator
- Patent Title (中): 无变矩器可调谐振荡器
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Application No.: US13030843Application Date: 2011-02-18
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Publication No.: US08665033B2Publication Date: 2014-03-04
- Inventor: Yiwu Tang , Jaehyouk Choi , Jongmin Park , Chiewcharn Narathong
- Applicant: Yiwu Tang , Jaehyouk Choi , Jongmin Park , Chiewcharn Narathong
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agent Kenyon S. Jenckes
- Main IPC: H03B5/08
- IPC: H03B5/08 ; H03B5/18

Abstract:
A tunable oscillator circuit is disclosed. The tunable oscillator circuit includes an inductor/capacitor (LC) tank circuit comprising a primary inductor coupled in parallel with a first capacitor bank. The LC tank resonates to produce an oscillating voltage at a frequency. The tunable oscillator circuit also includes a 90 degree phase shift buffer coupled to the LC tank and a transconductor. The transconductor is coupled to the 90 degree phase shift buffer and a secondary inductor. The tunable oscillator circuit also includes a secondary inductor that is inductively coupled to the primary inductor and receives a gain-scaled oscillating current from the transconductor. By changing the transconductance, the gain-scaled oscillating current in the secondary inductor will change, thus the effective primary inductance and the oscillation frequency can be tuned.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120212300A1 VARACTORLESS TUNABLE OSCILLATOR Public/Granted day:2012-08-23
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