Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Variable capacitance integrated electronic circuit module
- Patent Title (中): 可变电容集成电子电路模块
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Application No.: US13318915Application Date: 2010-05-03
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Publication No.: US08736393B2Publication Date: 2014-05-27
- Inventor: Guillaume Herault , Herve Marie
- Applicant: Guillaume Herault , Herve Marie
- Applicant Address: CH Plan-les-Ouates
- Assignee: ST-Ericsson SA
- Current Assignee: ST-Ericsson SA
- Current Assignee Address: CH Plan-les-Ouates
- Agency: Coats & Bennett, P.L.L.C.
- Priority: FR0952992 20090505
- International Application: PCT/EP2010/055982 WO 20100503
- International Announcement: WO2010/128017 WO 20101111
- Main IPC: H03M1/00
- IPC: H03M1/00 ; H03M1/12

Abstract:
A digitally controlled variable capacitance integrated electronic circuit module (100) comprises a set of basic cells in a matrix arrangement. Each basic cell itself comprises a functional block (11) which can be switched between two individual capacitance values, a control block (12), and a control junction connecting the control block and the functional block of said basic cell. The functional blocks and the control blocks are grouped into separate regions (110, 120) of the matrix arrangement, to reduce capacitive interaction between output paths and power supply paths of the module. The functional blocks can still be switched in a winding path order within the matrix arrangement. A module of the invention can be used in an oscillator capable of producing a signal at 4 GHz.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120052926A1 Variable Capacitance Integrated Electronic Circuit Module Public/Granted day:2012-03-01
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