Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Voltage-controlled oscillator, PLL circuit, and CDR device
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Application No.: US16520579Application Date: 2019-07-24
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Publication No.: US10951164B2Publication Date: 2021-03-16
- Inventor: Shunichi Kubo
- Applicant: THINE ELECTRONICS, INC.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: THINE ELECTRONICS, INC.
- Current Assignee: THINE ELECTRONICS, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: JPJP2018-139140 20180725
- Main IPC: H03B5/12
- IPC: H03B5/12 ; H03L7/08 ; H03L7/099 ; H02M3/07 ; H04L7/033 ; H03L7/093

Abstract:
Provided is a voltage-controlled oscillator capable of suppressing performance deterioration due to a leak current of a variable capacitive element. Each of the first capacitive circuit and the second capacitive circuit includes a variable capacitive element, a capacitive element, a detection circuit, and a compensation circuit. The variable capacitive element is provided between nodes. A capacitance value of variable capacitive element depends on a voltage value between the nodes. The detection circuit applies a bias voltage value to the second node, and detects an amount of leak current flowing through the variable capacitive element. The compensation circuit causes a current for compensating for the leak current of the variable capacitive element to flow through the first node on the basis of a detection result of the detection circuit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200036328A1 VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR, PLL CIRCUIT, AND CDR DEVICE Public/Granted day:2020-01-30
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