- Patent Title: Relaxation oscillator that samples voltage difference between voltages generated by resistor-capacitor charging and discharging for controlling output clock frequency of controllable oscillator and associated relaxation oscillation method
-
Application No.: US17525943Application Date: 2021-11-14
-
Publication No.: US11581851B2Publication Date: 2023-02-14
- Inventor: Fan-Wei Liao
- Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.
- Applicant Address: TW Hsin-Chu
- Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
- Current Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsin-Chu
- Agent Winston Hsu
- Main IPC: H03B5/20
- IPC: H03B5/20 ; G06F1/04

Abstract:
A relaxation oscillator includes a resistor-capacitor (RC) circuit, an integration capacitor, a sampling circuit, and a controllable oscillator. The RC circuit performs an RC charging operation to set a first voltage, performs an RC discharging operation to set a second voltage, and performs a reset operation to reset the first voltage to a first reference voltage and reset the second voltage to a second reference voltage. The sampling circuit performs a charge delivery operation to sample a voltage difference between the first voltage and the second voltage, and transfers the voltage difference to the integration capacitor. The controllable oscillator generates an output clock in response to a control input provided by the integration capacitor.
Public/Granted literature
Information query