Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Low power wideband LO using tuned injection locked oscillator
- Patent Title (中): 低功耗宽带LO使用调谐注入锁定振荡器
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Application No.: US13086325Application Date: 2011-04-13
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Publication No.: US08704603B2Publication Date: 2014-04-22
- Inventor: Mazhareddin Taghivand , Jeongsik Yang
- Applicant: Mazhareddin Taghivand , Jeongsik Yang
- 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: H03B5/12
- IPC: H03B5/12 ; H03B27/00 ; H03L7/24 ; H03L7/06

Abstract:
A tunable Injection-Locked Oscillator (ILO) having a wide locking range is used in a Local Oscillator (LO) of a wideband wireless transceiver to generate differential signals. The ILO includes a resonator with an adjustable natural oscillating frequency. In one example, the ILO is part of a quadrature divider that can lock onto a Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) output signal in a wide frequency band while achieving lower power consumption and lower phase noise than a differential latch type divider. The ILO is tuned by disabling a Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (VCO) from driving the ILO, adjusting the natural oscillating frequency, making a measurement indicative of the natural oscillating frequency, and determining whether the measurement is within a predetermined range. If the measurement is below the predetermined range, capacitances of resonators within the ILO are decreased, whereas if the measurement is above the predetermined range, capacitances of the resonators are increased.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120262239A1 LOW POWER WIDEBAND LO USING TUNED INJECTION LOCKED OSCILLATOR Public/Granted day:2012-10-18
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