Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Crystal driver circuit with external oscillation signal amplitude control
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Application No.: US15724714Application Date: 2017-10-04
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Publication No.: US10536115B2Publication Date: 2020-01-14
- Inventor: Tiago Marques , Vitor Pereira
- Applicant: SILICON LABORATORIES INC.
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
- Current Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Agency: Huffman Law Group, PC
- Main IPC: H03B5/36
- IPC: H03B5/36 ; H03F3/72

Abstract:
A crystal driver integrated circuit with external oscillation signal amplitude control including an amplifier core, an input pin and an output pin, an adjustable capacitor, and a controller. The controller operates the amplifier core in any one of multiple operating modes including an oscillator mode and a bypass mode. During the bypass mode, the controller disables the amplifier core and adjusts the adjustable capacitor so that an amplitude of an oscillation signal received via the input pin from an external oscillator has a target amplitude. The external oscillation signal may be capacitively coupled for capacitive voltage division or directly coupled for impedance attenuation. An available voltage may be provided as a source voltage to the external oscillator via the output pin. An internal voltage regulator and/or switch may be included to re-provision the output pin to provide the source voltage during the bypass mode.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190006990A1 CRYSTAL DRIVER CIRCUIT WITH EXTERNAL OSCILLATION SIGNAL AMPLITUDE CONTROL Public/Granted day:2019-01-03
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