Invention Grant
- Patent Title: PLL capacitor swap technique and low jitter dynamic Digital Controlled Oscillator band select
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Application No.: US16728601Application Date: 2019-12-27
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Publication No.: US10944411B1Publication Date: 2021-03-09
- Inventor: Mark Elzinga , Youngmin Park , Michael Bichan , Michael W. Altmann , Noam Familia , Vadim Levin , Dror Lazar
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Green, Howard & Mughal LLP
- Main IPC: H03L7/10
- IPC: H03L7/10 ; H03M3/00 ; H03L7/099 ; H03L7/18 ; H03L7/187

Abstract:
Described is an apparatus comprising a first circuitry, a second circuitry, a first capacitor array, and a second capacitor array. The first circuitry may have an oscillator. The first capacitor array may have a set of first capacitors to tune the oscillator. The second capacitor array may have a second capacitor to tune the oscillator. A capacitance of the second capacitor may be greater than an average capacitance of the first capacitors. The second circuitry may be operable to synchronously activate the second capacitor and deactivate a number N of the first capacitors, and to synchronously deactivate the second capacitor and activate the N first capacitors, based on a predetermined sequence.
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