Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
331116000 | Electromechanical resonator controlled | 77 |
20080297264 | Oscillating Circuit - An oscillating circuit includes an analog oscillation element. The oscillating circuit includes at least one analog-to-digital conversion device. A method is for operating an oscillating circuit, in which a mechanical oscillator oscillates at a natural frequency. The oscillation amplitude is measured and digitized. A digital control signal is generated from this with the aid of a digital amplitude controller. A driving signal is generated, in turn, from the digital control signal, the driving signal driving the mechanical oscillator with the aid of a drive unit. This control loop stabilizes the oscillation amplitude. | 12-04-2008 |
20080297265 | 4Less-TSOC of XLC, QBXOCK, QBTCXO, QBVCXO, SMLDVR and ANLVCO or 4Free-TSOC of XLC, QBXOCK, QBTCXO, QBVCXO, SMLDVR and ANLKVCO - Even the 4Less-Xtaless, Capless, Indless, Dioless TSOC Design of SOC or 4Free-Xtafree, Capfree, Indfree, Diofree TSOC Design of SOC is developed for the TSOC True System-On-Chip, the 4Less/4Free technologies can still be applied to the conventional XCLK, PMU, etc chip design to have the drastically fantastical improvements over the conventional crystal clock and power management unit chips. The application of 4Less/4Free-TSOC technology to the conventional crystal oscillator to be the QBXOCK Q-Boost Crystal Oscillator Clock, QBTCXO Q-Boost Temperature Cancelling Crystal Oscillator Clock and QBVCXO Q-Boost Voltage Control Crystal Oscillator Clock. Temperature cancelling technique is different from temperature compensation technique. Temperature cancelling technique gets rid of the temperature effect completely. However, the temperature compensation technique still has the residue temperature effect which cannot be compensated with the trimming bits. The application of 4Less/4Free-TSOC technology to the conventional PMU is the SMLDVR Switch Mode & Low Drop Voltage Regulator to have one power supply having two operation modes of switch mode and low drop voltage regulator to have the ultra-extended battery life for portable devices. The application of 4Less/4Free-TSOC technology to the conventional PLL is to have the ANLVCO Adaptive Non-Linear VCO to have the ultra-performance of clock jitter being much less than 1 ps. For the high frequency Network system such as Ethernet, WiMAX, Fiber optics, etc, the ANLVCO is the core technology. | 12-04-2008 |
20080315965 | THIRD OVERTONE CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR - A third overtone crystal oscillator has an oscillator IC and a crystal element accommodated in a container. The IC includes transistor grounded at its emitter, a first capacitor connected to the base of the transistor via a DC blocking capacitor and to the ground potential, and a second capacitor connected between the collector of the transistor and the ground potential. Both ends of the crystal element are connected to non-grounded ends of the first and second capacitors, respectively. A spiral inductor forming a parallel resonant circuit together with the first capacitor, is provided at the container, using a printing process, for example, being independent of the IC. The parallel resonant frequency of the parallel resonant circuit is set higher than the oscillation frequency at the fundamental wave of the crystal element, and lower than the oscillation frequency at the third overtone of the crystal element. | 12-25-2008 |
20090015341 | Piezoelectric oscillator - In order to remove external noise of the same phase, such as a power supply noise, on an crystal oscillator, one oscillation output has been conventionally obtained from one oscillation circuit, and by using a differential amplifier, the one oscillation output is turned into two oscillation outputs that are 180 degrees out of phase. However, it has been impossible to remove the noise of the same phase that occurs in the oscillation circuit. According to the present invention, there is provided a piezoelectric oscillator including a piezoelectric vibrator, and first and second oscillation circuits, and comprising a configuration such that an input terminal of the first oscillation circuit and one terminal of the piezoelectric vibrator are connected, an input terminal of the second oscillation circuit and the other terminal of the piezoelectric vibrator are connected, characterized in that: oscillation outputs that are 180 degrees out of phase to each other are obtained from outputs of the first and second oscillation circuits. | 01-15-2009 |
20090015342 | Fast startup resonant element oscillator - A startup circuit | 01-15-2009 |
20090121799 | PIEZOELECTRIC OSCILLATOR - A piezoelectric oscillator includes: a piezoelectric resonator; an oscillation circuit including a variable resistance circuit and a transistor for oscillation; a constant current circuit, the constant current circuit including a first current mirror circuit, and a current control circuit having an output terminal and controlling a current flowing in the first current circuit so as to enable an output current of the constant current circuit to be adjusted, the output terminal of the first current mirror circuit being coupled to at least one of a collector and a base of the transistor for oscillation with the variable resistance circuit; and a control circuit coupled to the current control circuit and the variable resistance circuit, the control circuit controlling the current control circuit and a resistance value of the variable resistance circuit. | 05-14-2009 |
20090146750 | Common Mode Controller for a Clock, Frequency Reference, and Other Reference Signal Generator - Exemplary embodiments of the invention provide a reference signal generator, system and method. An exemplary apparatus to generate a harmonic reference signal includes a reference resonator, such as an LC-tank, and a common mode controller. The reference resonator generates a first reference signal having a resonant frequency, and the common mode controller maintains substantially constant a common mode voltage level of the reference resonator. An amplitude controller may also be included to maintain substantially constant a magnitude of a peak amplitude of the first reference signal. A temperature-dependent control voltage also may be generated and utilized to maintain the resonant frequency substantially constant or within a predetermined variance of a calibrated or selected frequency. | 06-11-2009 |
20090153257 | PIEZOELECTRIC OSCILLATOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A piezoelectric oscillator includes: a piezoelectric resonator including a container, the container containing a piezoelectric resonator element: and a semiconductor device including an oscillation circuit for vibrating the piezoelectric resonator. The semiconductor device is bonded to a surface of the container. The container has an external coupling terminal and a cut-off part, the external coupling terminal being coupled to the semiconductor device, the cut-off part being disposed on a side surface of the container. The external coupling terminal is disposed in an area of the container, the area being opposed to the semiconductor device, and in the cut-off part. The semiconductor device has a coupling terminal on a surface thereof, the surface being opposed to the container. The coupling terminal of the semiconductor device and the external coupling terminal of the container are coupled with a conductive material. | 06-18-2009 |
20090219103 | Oscillator Arrangement and Method for Operating an Oscillating Crystal - The oscillator arrangement ( | 09-03-2009 |
20090267699 | TIMING OSCILLATORS AND RELATED METHODS - Timing oscillators as well as related methods and devices are described. A timing oscillator may include a mechanical resonating structure with major elements and minor elements coupled to the major element. The timing oscillator can generate stable signals with low phase noise at very high frequencies which allows a timing oscillator to be used effectively in a number of devices including computers and mobile phones for time and data synchronization purposes. The signal generated by the timing oscillator can be tuned using a driver circuit and a compensation circuit. | 10-29-2009 |
20100026403 | SELECTABLE DRIVE STRENGTH HIGH FREQUENCY CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT - A method, system, and apparatus to a selectable drive strength high frequency crystal oscillator circuit are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a crystal oscillator circuit to generate a signal with a specified frequency value, and a programmable amplifier circuit containing a plurality of programmable inverting amplifiers, and wherein certain ones of a plurality of inverting amplifiers are operated to change a gain and/or a bandwidth of the signal according to the specified frequency value of the crystal oscillator circuit. The system may include further comprising a resistor circuit coupled in parallel to the programmable amplifier circuit to set an operating point of the programmable amplifier circuit. | 02-04-2010 |
20100301954 | PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER, PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER MANUFACTURING METHOD, OSCILLATOR, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND RADIO CLOCK - Provided are: a piezoelectric oscillation piece which has a pair of oscillation arms disposed in parallel with each other with base ends of the oscillation arms fixed to a base of the piezoelectric oscillation piece and with weight metal films formed at the tips of the oscillation arms; a base substrate on the upper surface of which the piezoelectric oscillation piece is mounted; a lid substrate joined with the base substrate such that the mounted piezoelectric oscillation piece can be accommodated in a cavity; and a control film disposed in the vicinity of the pair of the oscillation arms as viewed in the plan view and formed at least on either of the substrates in such a manner as to extend from the base end side to the tip side in the longitudinal direction of the oscillation arms for increasing the degree of vacuum inside the cavity by heating. The control film is locally deposited on the side surfaces of the oscillation arms in the vicinity of the control film by heating. | 12-02-2010 |
20100308928 | PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATOR MANUFACTURING METHOD, PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATOR, OSCILLATOR, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND RADIO-CONTROLLED WATCH - The piezoelectric vibrator comprises a base substrate of which the two faces are polished; a lid substrate in which cavity recesses are formed and which is bonded to the base substrate in such a state that the recesses face the base substrate; a piezoelectric vibration member bonded to the upper face of the base substrate in such a state that it is housed in the cavity formed of the recess between the base substrate and the lid substrate; an external electrode formed on the lower face of the base substrate; a through-electrode formed in and through the base substrate and electrically connected with the external electrode with keeping the airtightness inside the cavity; and a routing electrode formed on the upper face of the base substrate to electrically connect the through-electrode to the bonded piezoelectric vibration member. The through-electrode is formed by hardening of a paste containing a plurality of metal fine particles. | 12-09-2010 |
20110012686 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COMPENSATING FOR A RESONATOR - A device for compensating for the frequency of a resonator, includes: a temperature sensor for the resonator; a sequencer determining a second compensation signal on the basis of the temperature value corresponding to a positive value N, and a third compensation signal on the basis of the temperature value, corresponding to a ratio between a positive integer S and N, S being lower than or equal to N; a variable counter receiving the compensation signals and generating a fourth output signal every N periods of a clock signal from the resonator and generating a fifth signal for modifying the charge capacity of the resonator. N includes an integer part Nint and a fractional part Nfrac, and the variable counter includes: an accumulator receiving Nfrac; a dual-module Nint, Nint+1 counter receiving Nint, a counting member connected to the output of the sequencer and to the output of the dual-module counter, and receiving the third and fourth signals, the counting element generating the fifth signal based on the state of S. | 01-20-2011 |
20110037526 | OSCILLATOR - There is provided an oscillator using a high-frequency crystal resonator which can satisfy the drive level needed for the crystal resonator and expand a variable frequency range. An oscillator having an oscillation circuit CC for oscillating the resonator SS is provided with a limiter circuit LM | 02-17-2011 |
20110156826 | RESONATOR ELEMENT, RESONATOR, OSCILLATOR, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND FREQUENCY ADJUSTMENT METHOD - A resonator element includes: a base portion provided on a plane including a first axis and a second axis orthogonal to the first axis; a vibrating arm extending from the base portion in the first axis direction; and a first mass portion for adjusting a resonance frequency of the vibrating arm, wherein the vibrating arm performs flexural vibration in a direction perpendicular to the plane and has a first surface which contracts or expands with the flexural vibration and a second surface which expands when the first surface contracts and contracts when the first surface expands, and wherein the first mass portion is provided on at least one of the first and second surfaces and approximately at the center of the length of the vibrating arm from a base-side end to a tip end thereof. | 06-30-2011 |
20110156827 | RESONATOR ELEMENT, RESONATOR, OSCILLATOR, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND FREQUENCY ADJSUTMENT METHOD - A resonator element includes: a base portion provided on a plane including a first axis and a second axis orthogonal to the first axis; a vibrating arm extending from the base portion in the first axis direction; an excitation electrode provided on the vibrating arm so as to excite the vibrating arm; and a first mass portion provided on the vibrating arm so as to adjust the frequency of the vibrating arm, wherein the vibrating arm performs flexural vibration in a direction perpendicular to the plane and wherein the first mass portion is provided in a region exceeding ½ of the entire length in the first axis direction of the vibrating arm from the end of the vibrating arm close to the base portion and is formed from a material whose density D (in units of 10 | 06-30-2011 |
20110156828 | SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE, OSCILLATOR, MODULE APPARATUS - A surface acoustic wave device includes: a sapphire substrate having a C-plane main surface; comb-like electrodes which excite surface acoustic waves formed on the main surface of the sapphire substrate; an aluminum nitride film which covers the comb-like electrodes and the main surface; and a silicon dioxide film which is formed on the surface of the aluminum nitride film. | 06-30-2011 |
20110204983 | Fundamental wave/overtone crystal oscillator - Provided is a fundamental wave/overtone crystal oscillator to obtain fundamental wave oscillation and overtone oscillation with one crystal unit and to optimize the excitation current depending on the fundamental wave oscillation and the overtone oscillation. The fundamental wave/overtone crystal oscillator includes a crystal unit that oscillates with fundamental waves or with overtones, and an oscillator circuit that amplifies an excitation current from the crystal unit and outputs an oscillatory frequency. A capacitor Cf and a capacitor Co are connected in parallel with the base of a transistor in the oscillator circuit as well as the emitter. A switch is provided so as to connect or disconnect the capacitor Cf with respect to the circuit in response to a switching signal. The switch turns ON when the crystal oscillator oscillates with fundamental waves, and turns OFF when the crystal oscillator oscillates with overtones. | 08-25-2011 |
20120133448 | MECHANICAL OSCILLATOR - A mechanical oscillator arrangement includes a mechanical structure ( | 05-31-2012 |
20120268218 | VIBRATION CIRCUIT - A vibration circuit includes: a micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) vibrator which includes a first electrode and a second electrode which are arranged with a gap therebetween; an amplification section which includes a gain section which has a first input terminal and a first output terminal and of which gain is greater than 1, and a gain restriction section which includes a second input terminal and a second output terminal and of which the gain is less than 1; and an output terminal which is connected to the first output terminal, wherein the first electrode is connected to the first input terminal, wherein the first output terminal is connected to the second input terminal, and wherein the second output terminal is connected to the second electrode. | 10-25-2012 |
20130027143 | ANTIRESONANT FREQUENCY-VARYING COMPLEX RESONANCE CIRCUIT - A complex resonance circuit includes a first current path performing a first phase shift and a first gain control to an AC power signal supplied, at least one second current path performing a second phase shift different in amount from the first phase shift and a second gain control different in amount from the first gain control to the AC power signal, at least two resonant circuits which are provided each on the respective first and second current paths, and have mutually different resonance points or antiresonance points for the AC power signals each passing through the respective first and second current paths and capture the respective AC power signals, and an analog operational circuit for allowing the AC power signals having passed through the first and second current paths to be subjected to addition or subtraction in an analog fashion for output. | 01-31-2013 |
20130135055 | SURFACE MOUNT PIEZOELECTRIC OSCILLATOR - A surface mount piezoelectric oscillator includes a piezoelectric resonator, a mounting board, and an IC chip mounted on the mounting board. An oscillator circuit includes the IC chip and the piezoelectric resonator. The piezoelectric resonator is bonded to the mounting board with solder balls. The mounting board includes a ceramic plate. The mounting board includes connecting terminals and a wiring pattern on the one mounting board principal surface of the mounting board. The connecting terminals are connected to the terminals of the piezoelectric resonator via solder balls. The mounting board includes an intermediate layer on the one mounting board principal surface and integrally formed with the mounting board. The intermediate layer includes solder ball placement openings to position the solder balls in a center of each of the connecting terminals and an IC chip mounting opening to mount the IC chip. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135056 | OSCILLATOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS OF THE SAME - An oscillator device includes: a structural layer extending over a first side of a semiconductor substrate; a semiconductor cap set on the structural layer; a coupling region extending between and hermetically sealing the structural layer and the cap and forming a cavity within the oscillator device; first and second conductive paths extending between the substrate and the structural layer; first and second conductive pads housed in the cavity and electrically coupled to first terminal portions of the first and second conductive paths by first and second connection regions, respectively, which extend through and are insulated from the structural layer; a piezoelectric resonator having first and second ends electrically coupled, respectively, to the first and second conductive pads, and extending in the cavity; and third and fourth conductive pads positioned outside the cavity and electrically coupled to second terminal portions of the first and second conductive paths. | 05-30-2013 |
20140104009 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR WITH ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE (ESD) COMPLIANT DRIVE LEVEL LIMITER - A crystal oscillator may be configured to limit crystal drive level in the crystal oscillator by clamping via a diode-resistor branch, voltage applied to a drain pad of the crystal oscillator. The crystal oscillator may incorporate Pierce crystal oscillator based implementation. The crystal oscillator may comprise an on-chip main branch, comprising at least one transistor element; an on-chip drain branch connecting the main branch to a drain pad; an on-chip gate branch connecting the main branch to a gate pad. The diode-resistor branch may be connected to the drain branch, and may comprise at least one diode and at least one resistor element. The at least one diode and the at least one resistor element may be connected in series in the diode-resistor branch. The clamped voltage may be applied from an off-chip drain node, through the drain pad. | 04-17-2014 |
20140125422 | SELF-OSCILLATION CIRCUIT - A self-oscillation circuit includes an oscillating unit, an amplifying unit, and a resonator. The oscillating unit is configured to self-oscillate. The amplifying unit is configured to amplify a frequency signal oscillated at the oscillating unit and to feed back the amplified frequency signal to the oscillating unit. The resonator is disposed in an oscillation loop that includes the oscillating unit and the amplifying unit. The resonator has a resonant frequency near an oscillation frequency of the oscillating unit and has a higher Q-value than a Q-value of the oscillating unit. | 05-08-2014 |
20140253252 | OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT - An oscillator circuit includes a crystal unit, a first variable capacitance element, a transistor, and a first capacitance element. The first variable capacitance element is disposed between a first terminal of the crystal unit and a ground. The transistor has a base connected to a second terminal of the crystal unit. The first capacitance element is disposed between an emitter and a collector of the transistor. | 09-11-2014 |
20140292430 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND OSCILLATOR - An electronic device according to an aspect of the invention include: a substrate; an underlayer having an opening and being formed on the substrate; a functional element provided on the underlayer; and a surrounding wall forming a cavity that accommodates the functional element, at least a part of the surrounding wall being disposed in the opening. | 10-02-2014 |
20140340162 | OSCILLATOR - An oscillator includes: a piezoelectric material to vibrate; a first inverting amplifier; a second inverting amplifier; a first output electrode to apply an output signal of the first inverting amplifier to the piezoelectric material; a second output electrode to apply an output signal of the second inverting amplifier to the piezoelectric material; a first input electrode to receive a voltage signal generated by the piezoelectric material and output the voltage signal to the first inverting amplifier; and a second input electrode to receive the voltage signal and output the voltage signal to the second inverting amplifier, wherein the first and second output electrodes are coupled to the piezoelectric material so that faces of the piezoelectric material move in opposite directions, and the first and second input electrodes are coupled to the piezoelectric material so that the voltage signals are input to the first and second input electrodes. | 11-20-2014 |
20150042408 | SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATOR, SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE OSCILLATOR, AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT - A SAW resonator which, using a quartz crystal substrate with Euler angles (−1.5°≦φ≦1.5°, 117°≦θ≦142°, and 41.9°≦|ψ|≦49.57°, includes an IDT that excites a stop band upper end mode SAW, and an inter-electrode finger groove provided between electrode fingers configuring the IDT. When a wavelength of the SAW is λ, a first depth of the inter-electrode finger groove is G, a line occupation rate of the IDT is η, and an electrode film thickness of the IDT is H, λ, G, η and H satisfy the relationship of 002-12-2015 | |
20150145611 | OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT, OSCILLATOR, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND MOVING OBJECT - An oscillator circuit includes an oscillating amplifier circuit to which an oscillator element is connected, and which generates an oscillation signal, and a plurality of MOS type variable capacitance elements each having two terminals, one of which is electrically connected to the oscillating amplifier circuit, the MOS type variable capacitance elements have respective threshold voltages different from each other, a control voltage is applied to one of the terminals of each of the MOS type variable capacitance elements, and a reference voltage is applied to the other of the terminals of each of the MOS type variable capacitance elements. It is also possible for the MOS type variable capacitance elements to be different from each other in dope amount of impurities to a semiconductor layer below a gate electrode. | 05-28-2015 |
20150365050 | OSCILLATION CIRCUIT, OSCILLATOR, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND MOVING OBJECT - An oscillation circuit includes a circuit for oscillation and a signal adjustment circuit connected to the circuit for oscillation. An input voltage based on a direct-current voltage, a voltage value of which can be changed, is input to the circuit for oscillation and the signal adjustment circuit. The circuit for oscillation causes a vibration piece to oscillate and outputs a first oscillation signal. A frequency of the first oscillation signal is adjusted according to the voltage value output from the signal adjustment circuit. | 12-17-2015 |
20160036383 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATION CIRCUIT - A crystal oscillation circuit is provided with a crystal oscillator, an inverter unit coupled in parallel with the crystal oscillator and including a plurality of inverters, a current supply unit that supplies current to at least a first inverter of the plurality of inverters a signal converter that supplies current to at least a last inverter of the plurality of inverters and outputs a voltage to an external circuit, and a current controller that makes the current supply unit provide current corresponding to a voltage level of the output voltage of the signal converter. The crystal oscillation circuit is capable of reducing power consumption. | 02-04-2016 |
20160072438 | DYNAMIC GEARSHIFT DURING OSCILLATOR BUILD-UP BASED ON DUTY CYCLE - A dynamic gearshifting system includes a monitoring device configured to monitor a duty cycle of a clock output signal of a crystal oscillator circuit during oscillation buildup upon power-up of the crystal oscillator circuit. The dynamic gearshifting system also includes a detecting device configured to detect whether the duty cycle of the clock output signal of the crystal oscillator circuit meets a duty cycle threshold value. The dynamic gearshifting system may further include an assertion device configured to assert a control signal based on detecting the duty cycle meets the duty cycle threshold value. The asserted control signal configured to dynamically adjust a transconductance of the crystal oscillator circuit. | 03-10-2016 |
20160087583 | Oscillator, Electronic Apparatus, and Moving Object - An oscillator includes a circuit board including a supporting substrate (base member), a first VCXO (a first oscillator circuit), a second VCXO (a second oscillator circuit), and a ground terminal (terminal for ground). The first VCXO and the second VCXO are configured such that a second output frequency that is output from the second VCXO is higher than a first output frequency that is output from the first VCXO. The second VCXO is placed closer to the ground terminal than the first VCXO. | 03-24-2016 |
20160164461 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATION DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A wiring pattern for oscillation input signal and a wiring pattern for oscillation output signal are provided on a printed circuit board, and a wiring pattern for ground power source voltage is arranged in a region therebetween. A quartz crystal unit is connected between the wiring pattern for oscillation input signal and the wiring pattern for oscillation output signal and one ends of capacitors serving as load capacitors thereof are connected to the wiring pattern for ground power source voltage. Further, a wiring pattern for VSS is arranged so as to enclose these wiring patterns, and a wiring pattern for VSS is arranged also in a lower layer in addition thereto. By this means, reduction of a parasitic capacitance between an XIN node and an XOUT node, improvement in noise tolerance of these nodes and others can be achieved. | 06-09-2016 |
20090212877 | MEMS OSCILLATOR - Provided is a MEMS oscillation circuit which performs temperature compensation of a MEMS resonator with a simple circuit, which is mild so that an output clock does not have jitter, and which makes the range of fluctuations of a reference frequency from a reference value equivalent to a range of digital processing. The MEMS oscillator includes a MEMS resonator, a temperature measurement unit for measuring a temperature and outputting a detected voltage corresponding to the temperature, and a bias voltage control circuit for applying the MEMS resonator with a bias voltage which changes the resonant frequency of the MEMS resonator in a manner opposite to a change of the resonant frequency of the MEMS resonator due to temperature change correspondingly to the detected voltage. | 08-27-2009 |
20090243737 | MEMS oscillator - A discharge electrode is provided on the opposite side of a fixed electrode with a beam portion being sandwiched therebetween. When the frequency of the MEMS oscillator is regulated by increasing the mass of a vibration element, the vibration element is used as a positive electrode and the discharge electrode as a negative electrode, and a direct current voltage is applied until an arc discharge occurs. When an arc discharge occurs between the vibration element and discharge electrode, an inert gas is ionized to become positive ions to collide against the discharge electrode to sputter or evaporate the material of the discharge electrode. A portion of discharged material from the discharge electrode adheres to the vibration element, therefore, the mass of the vibration element is increased to reduce a resonance frequency of the MEMS oscillator. | 10-01-2009 |
20100134194 | SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE DRIVING CIRCUIT AND OSCILLATOR THEREFOR - A driving circuit of a surface wave resonator (X | 06-03-2010 |
20140312984 | OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT - An oscillator circuit includes a first resonator, a second resonator, and a frequency adjusting unit. The second resonator has a frequency characteristic different from a frequency characteristic of the first resonator. The frequency adjusting unit is configured to change a ratio between a contribution of the first resonator and a contribution of the second resonator so as to adjust an output frequency. | 10-23-2014 |
20080252390 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT - A crystal oscillator circuit includes a capacitive load stage (C | 10-16-2008 |
20080284533 | ELECTRICAL OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT AND AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An electrical oscillator circuit comprising: a resonator comprised in the first subcircuit; and an active device comprised in the second subcircuit connected to energize the resonator to provide an oscillating electrical signal transmitted as a differential signal via electrical conductors to the second subcircuit. The oscillator is characterized in that the second subcircuit comprises means for receiving the differential signal transmitted via the electrical conductors and converting the differential signal to a single-ended signal with reference to the signal ground reference of the second subcircuit. Thereby a noise robust oscillator signal is provided with the use of very few components. Particularly suitable for oscillators embodied in an integrated circuit with the resonator mounted on a printed circuit board, PCB. And an integrated circuit. | 11-20-2008 |
20090058546 | OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT - An oscillator circuit includes a first terminal, a second terminal, a resonator that is connected to the first terminal and the second terminal, a first capacitor that is connected to the first terminal and a ground line supplying the ground electric potential, a second capacitor that is connected to the second terminal and the ground line, m inverters, where m is an odd number equal to or larger than three, which are connected in series between the first terminal and the second terminal, and a third capacitor that is connected to an input terminal of the n-th (where n is an integer satisfying 1≦n03-05-2009 | |
20090096541 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT HAVING FAST START-UP AND METHOD THEREFOR - In one embodiment, a method of programming an oscillator circuit includes providing a resonator, a first programmable capacitor, a second programmable capacitor, and an amplifier. The first programmable capacitor and the second programmable capacitor may be programmed at a first capacitance value during a first time period, wherein the first programmable capacitor provides a first voltage to bias the resonator and the amplifier alters the second voltage to provide a third voltage to the resonator. During a second time period the first capacitance value is increased. | 04-16-2009 |
20090134947 | Green technology platform for green chip design of MS0-GBQ-AMC-LCO clock, PLL-free SerDes, tire safety, inductorless-PMU & PA on vialess-ESDSL-PCB - The fundamental breakthrough in green technology is the planar EMI-Free Planar Inductor. The EMI-Free Planar Inductor is the backbone of the platform of green technology. The platform of green technology contains the Xtaless ClockChip, Inductorless PMU & PA and ESDS-PCB to provide the green technology for green chip design. Especially for the 4 | 05-28-2009 |
20100026402 | Low phase noise differential crystal oscillator circuit - A differential crystal oscillator circuit uses a bias transistor to generate a bias voltage from a bias current. The bias voltage is supplied to the control terminals of a differential pair of transistors. The differential transistors operate to produce a differential output between corresponding end terminals thereof, which is provided to a reference crystal oscillator to establish an oscillation frequency at the differential output. | 02-04-2010 |
20100134193 | OSCILLATION CIRCUIT - An oscillation circuit according to the present invention comprises a solid-state oscillator, an amplifier for feedback-controlling the solid-state oscillator, and ESD protecting circuits respectively connected to the input and output sides of the amplifier, wherein the ESD protecting circuit on the input side of the amplifier comprises an ESD protecting element whose constituent is a diode having a P-type diffusion layer and an N-type diffusion layer, and the ESD protecting circuit on the output side of the amplifier comprises an ESD protecting element whose constituent is an MOS transistor. | 06-03-2010 |
20100148880 | Method and System for Forming Resonators Over CMOS - In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a semiconductor substrate includes complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) circuitry disposed outwardly from the semiconductor substrate. An electrode is disposed outwardly from the CMOS circuitry. The electrode is electrically coupled to the CMOS circuitry. A resonator is disposed outwardly from the electrode. The resonator is operable to oscillate at a resonance frequency in response to an electrostatic field propagated, at least in part, by the electrode. | 06-17-2010 |
20100182094 | CONSTANT CURRENT DRIVEN OSCILLATING CIRCUIT - There is provided a constant current driven oscillating circuit including: an oscillator with first and second ends; a first field effect transistor that turns ON when a signal of a lower level than a first threshold voltage is input to a first gate terminal, and outputs, from a second terminal, current that has been input from a first terminal; a second field effect transistor turning ON when a signal output from the oscillator and is at a higher level than a second threshold voltage is input to a second gate terminal connected to the second end of the oscillator, and outputs, from a fourth terminal, current that has been input from a third terminal connected to the second terminal and to the first end of the oscillator; and an adjusting section that adjusts the first threshold voltage according to the level of the signal output from the oscillator. | 07-22-2010 |
20100259335 | RESISTORLESS FEEDBACK BIASING FOR ULTRA LOW POWER CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR - An operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) is used as the DC bias feedback of a crystal oscillator to minimize temperature, voltage and process corner variations thereof, and thereby improve the reliability of crystal oscillator operation at ultra low power levels. | 10-14-2010 |
20100321123 | LOW POWER CONSUMING QUARTZ OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT WITH ACTIVE POLARISATION - The quartz oscillator circuit includes an inverter comprising two complementary PMOS and NMOS transistors (P | 12-23-2010 |
20110037525 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR - This invention discloses a crystal oscillator, in which by appropriately designing the gain of an amplifier to achieve high trans-conductance and low power consumption. This crystal oscillator includes a first pad, coupled to a first node of a crystal, for receiving a crystal oscillating signal outputted from the crystal; an amplifier, coupled to the first pad, for amplifying the crystal oscillating signal to generate an amplifying signal; an inverter, coupled to the amplifier, for inverting the amplifying signal; and a second pad, coupled to a second node of the crystal, for outputting an oscillating signal to the crystal. | 02-17-2011 |
20110090016 | OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT WITH A FAST TRANSIENT - An oscillator circuit for producing a frequency signal has a resonator element, an amplifier circuit and a coupling apparatus. The coupling apparatus connects the amplifier circuit to the resonator element for the duration of a switching-on process in the oscillator circuit. | 04-21-2011 |
20110121908 | Mems Resonator and Manufacturing Method of the Same - A resonator with a microeletromechanical system structure has a transistor with a gate electrode, a capacitor with an upper and lower electrode, a substrate, a first and second structure of the microelectromechanical system structure, a first silicon layer of the first structure and the upper electrode formed above the substrate, a second silicon layer of the second structure and the gate electrode unit formed above the substrate, and an insulating film formed above the capacitor and the transistor, the insulating film having an opening for placement of the second structure. | 05-26-2011 |
20110148533 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR WITH FAST START-UP AND LOW CURRENT CONSUMPTION - An oscillator comprises an inverter, with a resonator connected between an input and an output of the inverter. A transistor external to the inverter is connected in a current mirror mode with a transistor of the inverter so that the inverter's transistor copies the current of the external transistor. The external transistor has its drain terminal connected to the gate terminals of the inverter's transistor and of the external transistor. A current source is connected to the gate terminal of the inverter's transistor, and a switch is connected between the drain and gate terminals of the external transistor. Circuitry controls the switch so as to open the connection between the drain and gate terminals of the external transistor at the beginning of a start-up phase of the oscillator. | 06-23-2011 |
20120081187 | Oscillator - An oscillator outputs a sine wave with high purity capable of reducing phase noise. In a Colpitts oscillator circuit using a transistor as an amplifying part, a quartz-crystal resonator for waveform shaping is provided outside or inside an oscillation loop. A quartz-crystal resonator for oscillation and the quartz-crystal resonator for waveform shaping are formed, with an electrode pair and an electrode pair being provided on a common quartz-crystal piece. A separation distance between the electrode of the quartz-crystal resonator and the electrode of the quartz-crystal resonator is set large so that they are not elastically coupled, or even when they are elastically coupled, their coupling degree is weak, and an inductor causing parallel resonance with a parallel capacitance of the quartz-crystal resonator is provided. | 04-05-2012 |
20120092080 | OSCILLATOR - Provided is a temperature compensated oscillator includes an oscillation circuit for oscillating an oscillator. In the oscillator, when an oscillation frequency is changed by a second control signal after being controlled by a first control signal, variation in the oscillation frequency due to a second control signal is set to a fixed amount. The oscillation frequency of the oscillator is controlled on the basis of both the first control signal and the second control signal, but an oscillation amplitude adjusting section is also added, the oscillation amplitude adjusting section allowing the oscillation amplitude of the oscillator to be changed by the second control signal. The oscillator thus allows a fixed amount of oscillation frequency control over a wide range (full range) of oscillation frequency control due to the first control signal. | 04-19-2012 |
20120154066 | OSCILLATOR, AND CLOCK GENERATOR, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - An oscillator includes a reference voltage generator, an oscillation element configured to oscillate by either a drive voltage or a drive current and output an oscillation signal, a peak hold element configured to detect a peak level of the oscillation signal for output; and a controller configured to increase or decrease the drive voltage or drive current in accordance with the reference voltage generated by the reference voltage generator and the peak level output from the peak hold element. | 06-21-2012 |
20120161888 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT - An embodiment of a crystal oscillator circuit includes leakage-current compensation, transconductance enhancement, or both leakage-current compensation and transconductance enhancement. Such an oscillator circuit may draw a reduced operating current relative to a conventional oscillator circuit, and thus may be suitable for battery or other low-power applications. | 06-28-2012 |
20120161889 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATION DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A wiring pattern for oscillation input signal and a wiring pattern for oscillation output signal are provided on a printed circuit board, and a wiring pattern for ground power source voltage is arranged in a region therebetween. A quartz crystal unit is connected between the wiring pattern for oscillation input signal and the wiring pattern for oscillation output signal and one ends of capacitors serving as load capacitors thereof are connected to the wiring pattern for ground power source voltage. Further, a wiring pattern for VSS is arranged so as to enclose these wiring patterns, and a wiring pattern for VSS is arranged also in a lower layer in addition thereto. By this means, reduction of a parasitic capacitance between an XIN node and an XOUT node, improvement in noise tolerance of these nodes and others can be achieved. | 06-28-2012 |
20120200363 | PIEZOELECTRIC OSCILLATOR - Provided is a piezoelectric oscillator to attain high-frequency performance and frequency stabilization with the use of reflection characteristics of a reflective element. A piezoelectric oscillator is configured such that: a resonant circuit is connected to a gate of a field effect transistor; an output terminal is connected to a drain and a power supply voltage V is applied to the drain; a piezoelectric resonator is connected to a source, as a reflective element; and a resonance frequency of the resonant circuit and an oscillation frequency of the piezoelectric resonator as a reflective element are set to substantially the same frequency, and further, the piezoelectric oscillator may be configured such that a first matching circuit is provided between the resonant circuit and the gate, a second matching circuit is provided between the drain and the output terminal, and a third matching circuit is provided between the source and the reflective element. | 08-09-2012 |
20120212299 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING DESIGN VALUES FOR CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - According to the invention, two of three design values, i.e., the negative resistance RL, load capacitance CL and drive current Ios of a crystal oscillator circuit including a crystal resonator are determined to determine the remaining one design value from a relation equation or relation graph. As a result, reducing the CL of the crystal oscillator circuit allows the drive current Ios to be reduced, achieving reduced power consumption of the crystal oscillator circuit. | 08-23-2012 |
20130120074 | MULTI-FREQUENCY RECONFIGURABLE VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR (VCO) AND METHOD OF PROVIDING SAME - A multiple frequency reconfigurable voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) ( | 05-16-2013 |
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20130300512 | CLOCK GENERATOR FOR CRYSTAL OR CERAMIC OSCILLATOR AND FILTER SYSTEM FOR SAME - A clock generator is disclosed for use with an oscillator device. The clock generator may include a signal conditioning pre-filter and a comparator. The signal conditioner may have an input for a signal from the oscillator device, and may include a high pass filter component and a low pass filter component. The high pass filter component may pass amplitude and frequency components of the input oscillator signal but reject a common mode component of the oscillator signal. Instead, the high pass filter component further may generate its own common mode component locally over which the high frequency components are superimposed. The low pass filter component may generate a second output signal that represents the locally-generated common mode component of the first output signal. The clock generator may have a comparator as an input stage which is coupled to first and second outputs of the filter structure. | 11-14-2013 |
20140022025 | HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT AND METHOD TO OPERATE SAME - A method includes providing an oscillator having a field effect transistor connected with a resonant circuit. The field effect transistor has a gate electrode coupled to a source of gate voltage, a source electrode, a drain electrode and a graphene channel disposed between the source electrode and the drain electrode and electrically connected thereto. The method further includes biasing the graphene channel via the gate electrode into a negative differential resistance region of operation to cause the oscillator to generate a frequency signal having a resonant frequency f0. There can be an additional step of varying the gate voltage so as to bias the graphene channel into the negative differential resistance region of operation and out of the negative differential resistance region of operation so as to turn on the frequency signal and to turn off the frequency signal, respectively. | 01-23-2014 |
20140062609 | XTAL oscillator - Resistor bias circuitry is included in components of an XTAL oscillator system to reduce 1/f noise. An XTAL oscillator includes a resistor bias circuit attached to the XTAL core. A common mode feedback OP amp connected to the XTAL core also includes a resistor bias circuit. An XTAL oscillator chain includes an XTAL core, common mode feedback OP amp, common mode logic buffer (CML BF), and differential to CMOS converter (D2C) each with resistor bias circuitry. | 03-06-2014 |
20140320223 | SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS, OSCILLATION CIRCUIT, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM - A semiconductor apparatus includes: first and second external terminals that are connected to respective both ends of an piezoelectric vibrator, in which the piezoelectric vibrator is externally disposed; an inverting amplifier that is disposed between the first and second external terminals; a feedback resistance that feeds back an output of the inverting amplifier to an input of the inverting amplifier; a first capacitative element that is disposed between the first external terminal and a reference voltage terminal; a first resistive element that is disposed in series with the first capacitative element; a second capacitative element that is disposed between the second external terminal and the reference voltage terminal; and a second resistive element that is disposed in series with the second capacitative element. | 10-30-2014 |
20150061786 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT HAVING LOW POWER CONSUMPTION, LOW JITTER AND WIDE OPERATING RANGE - A crystal oscillator circuit includes: a crystal resonator circuit, generating an oscillation signal; an inverting amplification circuit, whose first amplifier input end is coupled to receive the oscillation signal, in which an inverting amplifier outputs an inverting amplified output signal; a bias circuit, having a bias circuit input end and a bias circuit output end, in which the bias circuit output end generates a bias circuit output signal controlled by the bias circuit input end, and the bias circuit output signal is coupled to a second amplifier input end; and a peak detection circuit, comparing the inverting amplified output signal with a reference signal, regulating a peak detector output signal, and feeding the peak detector output signal into the bias circuit input end, in which the bias circuit includes a self-adjusting circuit, for isolating a power supply from a second input end of the inverting amplifier. | 03-05-2015 |
20150116048 | OSCILLATION CIRCUIT, OSCILLATOR, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OSCILLATOR, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND MOVING OBJECT - An oscillation circuit includes: an oscillation unit which includes a first terminal and a second terminal connected to a vibrator; a third terminal to which a ground potential is supplied; a fourth terminal which is electrically connected to the second terminal, and to which at least one of an AC voltage for driving the vibrator and a voltage for operating the oscillation unit is applied; and a first switching unit which switches modes of electrical connection between the first terminal and the third terminal. | 04-30-2015 |
20160028349 | Differential Crystal Oscillator Circuit - A differential crystal oscillator circuit, including: first and second output terminals; a cross-coupled oscillation unit including first and second transistors cross-coupled to the first and second output terminals; first and second metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) diodes, each MOSFET diode including a resistor connected between gate and drain terminals, wherein the first MOSFET diode couples to the first transistor to provide low-impedance load at low frequencies and high-impedance load at higher frequencies to the first transistor, wherein the second MOSFET diode couples to the second transistor to provide low-impedance load at low frequencies and high-impedance load at higher frequencies to the second transistor; and a reference resonator coupled between the first and second output terminals to establish an oscillation frequency. | 01-28-2016 |
20160072497 | Low Phase Noise Technique for a Crystal Oscillator Circuit - In aspects of a low phase noise technique for use with a crystal oscillator, a bias control circuit sets a bias voltage on the gate of a first transistor needed to sink or source an amount of current corresponding to a sensed common mode signal. The sensed common mode signal is sensed with a common mode sense circuit that is coupled across two ports of the crystal oscillator, and current is provided by a current source. The bias voltage is set by a bias controller that uses a second transistor coupled to the common mode sense circuit and the first transistor. | 03-10-2016 |
20160099682 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR - A crystal oscillator, including: a voltage stabilizing unit, a transconductance unit, a feedback resistor, a crystal resonator and at least two ground capacitors. The voltage stabilizing unit includes a current source and a first branch circuit including PMOS and NMOS connected in series, PMOS has its source connected to output of the current source, PMOS and NMOS have their gates connected to drains thereof, and NMOS has its source connected to ground. The transconductance unit includes a second branch circuit including PMOS and NMOS connected in series, PMOS has its source connected to output of the voltage stabilizing unit, PMOS and NMOS have their gates connected to input of the crystal resonator and one end of the resistor, and have their drains connected to output of the crystal resonator and another end of the resistor. The capacitors are connected to two ends of the crystal resonator respectively and ground. | 04-07-2016 |
20160105147 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR START-UP CIRCUIT - A crystal oscillator start-up circuit capable of reducing a start-up time of a crystal oscillator is disclosed. The crystal oscillator start-up circuit is provided with a crystal oscillation unit including a crystal oscillator, a converter and an external oscillator. The crystal oscillation unit generates an output signal corresponding to the impedance characteristic of the crystal oscillator. The converter converts the output signal of the crystal oscillation unit to a voltage signal. The external oscillator outputs to the crystal oscillation unit an oscillation signal whose frequency is adjusted by the voltage signal to approach a resonance frequency of the crystal oscillator. | 04-14-2016 |
20160164462 | SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS, OSCILLATION CIRCUIT, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM - A semiconductor apparatus includes: first and second external terminals that are connected to respective both ends of an piezoelectric vibrator, in which the piezoelectric vibrator is externally disposed; an inverting amplifier that is disposed between the first and second external terminals; a feedback resistance that feeds back an output of the inverting amplifier to an input of the inverting amplifier; a first capacitative element that is disposed between the first external terminal and a reference voltage terminal; a first resistive element that is disposed in series with the first capacitative element; a second capacitative element that is disposed between the second external terminal and the reference voltage terminal; and a second resistive element that is disposed in series with the second capacitative element. | 06-09-2016 |
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20080297264 | Oscillating Circuit - An oscillating circuit includes an analog oscillation element. The oscillating circuit includes at least one analog-to-digital conversion device. A method is for operating an oscillating circuit, in which a mechanical oscillator oscillates at a natural frequency. The oscillation amplitude is measured and digitized. A digital control signal is generated from this with the aid of a digital amplitude controller. A driving signal is generated, in turn, from the digital control signal, the driving signal driving the mechanical oscillator with the aid of a drive unit. This control loop stabilizes the oscillation amplitude. | 12-04-2008 |
20080297265 | 4Less-TSOC of XLC, QBXOCK, QBTCXO, QBVCXO, SMLDVR and ANLVCO or 4Free-TSOC of XLC, QBXOCK, QBTCXO, QBVCXO, SMLDVR and ANLKVCO - Even the 4Less-Xtaless, Capless, Indless, Dioless TSOC Design of SOC or 4Free-Xtafree, Capfree, Indfree, Diofree TSOC Design of SOC is developed for the TSOC True System-On-Chip, the 4Less/4Free technologies can still be applied to the conventional XCLK, PMU, etc chip design to have the drastically fantastical improvements over the conventional crystal clock and power management unit chips. The application of 4Less/4Free-TSOC technology to the conventional crystal oscillator to be the QBXOCK Q-Boost Crystal Oscillator Clock, QBTCXO Q-Boost Temperature Cancelling Crystal Oscillator Clock and QBVCXO Q-Boost Voltage Control Crystal Oscillator Clock. Temperature cancelling technique is different from temperature compensation technique. Temperature cancelling technique gets rid of the temperature effect completely. However, the temperature compensation technique still has the residue temperature effect which cannot be compensated with the trimming bits. The application of 4Less/4Free-TSOC technology to the conventional PMU is the SMLDVR Switch Mode & Low Drop Voltage Regulator to have one power supply having two operation modes of switch mode and low drop voltage regulator to have the ultra-extended battery life for portable devices. The application of 4Less/4Free-TSOC technology to the conventional PLL is to have the ANLVCO Adaptive Non-Linear VCO to have the ultra-performance of clock jitter being much less than 1 ps. For the high frequency Network system such as Ethernet, WiMAX, Fiber optics, etc, the ANLVCO is the core technology. | 12-04-2008 |
20080315965 | THIRD OVERTONE CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR - A third overtone crystal oscillator has an oscillator IC and a crystal element accommodated in a container. The IC includes transistor grounded at its emitter, a first capacitor connected to the base of the transistor via a DC blocking capacitor and to the ground potential, and a second capacitor connected between the collector of the transistor and the ground potential. Both ends of the crystal element are connected to non-grounded ends of the first and second capacitors, respectively. A spiral inductor forming a parallel resonant circuit together with the first capacitor, is provided at the container, using a printing process, for example, being independent of the IC. The parallel resonant frequency of the parallel resonant circuit is set higher than the oscillation frequency at the fundamental wave of the crystal element, and lower than the oscillation frequency at the third overtone of the crystal element. | 12-25-2008 |
20090015341 | Piezoelectric oscillator - In order to remove external noise of the same phase, such as a power supply noise, on an crystal oscillator, one oscillation output has been conventionally obtained from one oscillation circuit, and by using a differential amplifier, the one oscillation output is turned into two oscillation outputs that are 180 degrees out of phase. However, it has been impossible to remove the noise of the same phase that occurs in the oscillation circuit. According to the present invention, there is provided a piezoelectric oscillator including a piezoelectric vibrator, and first and second oscillation circuits, and comprising a configuration such that an input terminal of the first oscillation circuit and one terminal of the piezoelectric vibrator are connected, an input terminal of the second oscillation circuit and the other terminal of the piezoelectric vibrator are connected, characterized in that: oscillation outputs that are 180 degrees out of phase to each other are obtained from outputs of the first and second oscillation circuits. | 01-15-2009 |
20090015342 | Fast startup resonant element oscillator - A startup circuit | 01-15-2009 |
20090121799 | PIEZOELECTRIC OSCILLATOR - A piezoelectric oscillator includes: a piezoelectric resonator; an oscillation circuit including a variable resistance circuit and a transistor for oscillation; a constant current circuit, the constant current circuit including a first current mirror circuit, and a current control circuit having an output terminal and controlling a current flowing in the first current circuit so as to enable an output current of the constant current circuit to be adjusted, the output terminal of the first current mirror circuit being coupled to at least one of a collector and a base of the transistor for oscillation with the variable resistance circuit; and a control circuit coupled to the current control circuit and the variable resistance circuit, the control circuit controlling the current control circuit and a resistance value of the variable resistance circuit. | 05-14-2009 |
20090146750 | Common Mode Controller for a Clock, Frequency Reference, and Other Reference Signal Generator - Exemplary embodiments of the invention provide a reference signal generator, system and method. An exemplary apparatus to generate a harmonic reference signal includes a reference resonator, such as an LC-tank, and a common mode controller. The reference resonator generates a first reference signal having a resonant frequency, and the common mode controller maintains substantially constant a common mode voltage level of the reference resonator. An amplitude controller may also be included to maintain substantially constant a magnitude of a peak amplitude of the first reference signal. A temperature-dependent control voltage also may be generated and utilized to maintain the resonant frequency substantially constant or within a predetermined variance of a calibrated or selected frequency. | 06-11-2009 |
20090153257 | PIEZOELECTRIC OSCILLATOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A piezoelectric oscillator includes: a piezoelectric resonator including a container, the container containing a piezoelectric resonator element: and a semiconductor device including an oscillation circuit for vibrating the piezoelectric resonator. The semiconductor device is bonded to a surface of the container. The container has an external coupling terminal and a cut-off part, the external coupling terminal being coupled to the semiconductor device, the cut-off part being disposed on a side surface of the container. The external coupling terminal is disposed in an area of the container, the area being opposed to the semiconductor device, and in the cut-off part. The semiconductor device has a coupling terminal on a surface thereof, the surface being opposed to the container. The coupling terminal of the semiconductor device and the external coupling terminal of the container are coupled with a conductive material. | 06-18-2009 |
20090219103 | Oscillator Arrangement and Method for Operating an Oscillating Crystal - The oscillator arrangement ( | 09-03-2009 |
20090267699 | TIMING OSCILLATORS AND RELATED METHODS - Timing oscillators as well as related methods and devices are described. A timing oscillator may include a mechanical resonating structure with major elements and minor elements coupled to the major element. The timing oscillator can generate stable signals with low phase noise at very high frequencies which allows a timing oscillator to be used effectively in a number of devices including computers and mobile phones for time and data synchronization purposes. The signal generated by the timing oscillator can be tuned using a driver circuit and a compensation circuit. | 10-29-2009 |
20100026403 | SELECTABLE DRIVE STRENGTH HIGH FREQUENCY CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT - A method, system, and apparatus to a selectable drive strength high frequency crystal oscillator circuit are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a crystal oscillator circuit to generate a signal with a specified frequency value, and a programmable amplifier circuit containing a plurality of programmable inverting amplifiers, and wherein certain ones of a plurality of inverting amplifiers are operated to change a gain and/or a bandwidth of the signal according to the specified frequency value of the crystal oscillator circuit. The system may include further comprising a resistor circuit coupled in parallel to the programmable amplifier circuit to set an operating point of the programmable amplifier circuit. | 02-04-2010 |
20100301954 | PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER, PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER MANUFACTURING METHOD, OSCILLATOR, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND RADIO CLOCK - Provided are: a piezoelectric oscillation piece which has a pair of oscillation arms disposed in parallel with each other with base ends of the oscillation arms fixed to a base of the piezoelectric oscillation piece and with weight metal films formed at the tips of the oscillation arms; a base substrate on the upper surface of which the piezoelectric oscillation piece is mounted; a lid substrate joined with the base substrate such that the mounted piezoelectric oscillation piece can be accommodated in a cavity; and a control film disposed in the vicinity of the pair of the oscillation arms as viewed in the plan view and formed at least on either of the substrates in such a manner as to extend from the base end side to the tip side in the longitudinal direction of the oscillation arms for increasing the degree of vacuum inside the cavity by heating. The control film is locally deposited on the side surfaces of the oscillation arms in the vicinity of the control film by heating. | 12-02-2010 |
20100308928 | PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATOR MANUFACTURING METHOD, PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATOR, OSCILLATOR, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND RADIO-CONTROLLED WATCH - The piezoelectric vibrator comprises a base substrate of which the two faces are polished; a lid substrate in which cavity recesses are formed and which is bonded to the base substrate in such a state that the recesses face the base substrate; a piezoelectric vibration member bonded to the upper face of the base substrate in such a state that it is housed in the cavity formed of the recess between the base substrate and the lid substrate; an external electrode formed on the lower face of the base substrate; a through-electrode formed in and through the base substrate and electrically connected with the external electrode with keeping the airtightness inside the cavity; and a routing electrode formed on the upper face of the base substrate to electrically connect the through-electrode to the bonded piezoelectric vibration member. The through-electrode is formed by hardening of a paste containing a plurality of metal fine particles. | 12-09-2010 |
20110012686 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COMPENSATING FOR A RESONATOR - A device for compensating for the frequency of a resonator, includes: a temperature sensor for the resonator; a sequencer determining a second compensation signal on the basis of the temperature value corresponding to a positive value N, and a third compensation signal on the basis of the temperature value, corresponding to a ratio between a positive integer S and N, S being lower than or equal to N; a variable counter receiving the compensation signals and generating a fourth output signal every N periods of a clock signal from the resonator and generating a fifth signal for modifying the charge capacity of the resonator. N includes an integer part Nint and a fractional part Nfrac, and the variable counter includes: an accumulator receiving Nfrac; a dual-module Nint, Nint+1 counter receiving Nint, a counting member connected to the output of the sequencer and to the output of the dual-module counter, and receiving the third and fourth signals, the counting element generating the fifth signal based on the state of S. | 01-20-2011 |
20110037526 | OSCILLATOR - There is provided an oscillator using a high-frequency crystal resonator which can satisfy the drive level needed for the crystal resonator and expand a variable frequency range. An oscillator having an oscillation circuit CC for oscillating the resonator SS is provided with a limiter circuit LM | 02-17-2011 |
20110156826 | RESONATOR ELEMENT, RESONATOR, OSCILLATOR, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND FREQUENCY ADJUSTMENT METHOD - A resonator element includes: a base portion provided on a plane including a first axis and a second axis orthogonal to the first axis; a vibrating arm extending from the base portion in the first axis direction; and a first mass portion for adjusting a resonance frequency of the vibrating arm, wherein the vibrating arm performs flexural vibration in a direction perpendicular to the plane and has a first surface which contracts or expands with the flexural vibration and a second surface which expands when the first surface contracts and contracts when the first surface expands, and wherein the first mass portion is provided on at least one of the first and second surfaces and approximately at the center of the length of the vibrating arm from a base-side end to a tip end thereof. | 06-30-2011 |
20110156827 | RESONATOR ELEMENT, RESONATOR, OSCILLATOR, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND FREQUENCY ADJSUTMENT METHOD - A resonator element includes: a base portion provided on a plane including a first axis and a second axis orthogonal to the first axis; a vibrating arm extending from the base portion in the first axis direction; an excitation electrode provided on the vibrating arm so as to excite the vibrating arm; and a first mass portion provided on the vibrating arm so as to adjust the frequency of the vibrating arm, wherein the vibrating arm performs flexural vibration in a direction perpendicular to the plane and wherein the first mass portion is provided in a region exceeding ½ of the entire length in the first axis direction of the vibrating arm from the end of the vibrating arm close to the base portion and is formed from a material whose density D (in units of 10 | 06-30-2011 |
20110156828 | SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE, OSCILLATOR, MODULE APPARATUS - A surface acoustic wave device includes: a sapphire substrate having a C-plane main surface; comb-like electrodes which excite surface acoustic waves formed on the main surface of the sapphire substrate; an aluminum nitride film which covers the comb-like electrodes and the main surface; and a silicon dioxide film which is formed on the surface of the aluminum nitride film. | 06-30-2011 |
20110204983 | Fundamental wave/overtone crystal oscillator - Provided is a fundamental wave/overtone crystal oscillator to obtain fundamental wave oscillation and overtone oscillation with one crystal unit and to optimize the excitation current depending on the fundamental wave oscillation and the overtone oscillation. The fundamental wave/overtone crystal oscillator includes a crystal unit that oscillates with fundamental waves or with overtones, and an oscillator circuit that amplifies an excitation current from the crystal unit and outputs an oscillatory frequency. A capacitor Cf and a capacitor Co are connected in parallel with the base of a transistor in the oscillator circuit as well as the emitter. A switch is provided so as to connect or disconnect the capacitor Cf with respect to the circuit in response to a switching signal. The switch turns ON when the crystal oscillator oscillates with fundamental waves, and turns OFF when the crystal oscillator oscillates with overtones. | 08-25-2011 |
20120133448 | MECHANICAL OSCILLATOR - A mechanical oscillator arrangement includes a mechanical structure ( | 05-31-2012 |
20120268218 | VIBRATION CIRCUIT - A vibration circuit includes: a micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) vibrator which includes a first electrode and a second electrode which are arranged with a gap therebetween; an amplification section which includes a gain section which has a first input terminal and a first output terminal and of which gain is greater than 1, and a gain restriction section which includes a second input terminal and a second output terminal and of which the gain is less than 1; and an output terminal which is connected to the first output terminal, wherein the first electrode is connected to the first input terminal, wherein the first output terminal is connected to the second input terminal, and wherein the second output terminal is connected to the second electrode. | 10-25-2012 |
20130027143 | ANTIRESONANT FREQUENCY-VARYING COMPLEX RESONANCE CIRCUIT - A complex resonance circuit includes a first current path performing a first phase shift and a first gain control to an AC power signal supplied, at least one second current path performing a second phase shift different in amount from the first phase shift and a second gain control different in amount from the first gain control to the AC power signal, at least two resonant circuits which are provided each on the respective first and second current paths, and have mutually different resonance points or antiresonance points for the AC power signals each passing through the respective first and second current paths and capture the respective AC power signals, and an analog operational circuit for allowing the AC power signals having passed through the first and second current paths to be subjected to addition or subtraction in an analog fashion for output. | 01-31-2013 |
20130135055 | SURFACE MOUNT PIEZOELECTRIC OSCILLATOR - A surface mount piezoelectric oscillator includes a piezoelectric resonator, a mounting board, and an IC chip mounted on the mounting board. An oscillator circuit includes the IC chip and the piezoelectric resonator. The piezoelectric resonator is bonded to the mounting board with solder balls. The mounting board includes a ceramic plate. The mounting board includes connecting terminals and a wiring pattern on the one mounting board principal surface of the mounting board. The connecting terminals are connected to the terminals of the piezoelectric resonator via solder balls. The mounting board includes an intermediate layer on the one mounting board principal surface and integrally formed with the mounting board. The intermediate layer includes solder ball placement openings to position the solder balls in a center of each of the connecting terminals and an IC chip mounting opening to mount the IC chip. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135056 | OSCILLATOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS OF THE SAME - An oscillator device includes: a structural layer extending over a first side of a semiconductor substrate; a semiconductor cap set on the structural layer; a coupling region extending between and hermetically sealing the structural layer and the cap and forming a cavity within the oscillator device; first and second conductive paths extending between the substrate and the structural layer; first and second conductive pads housed in the cavity and electrically coupled to first terminal portions of the first and second conductive paths by first and second connection regions, respectively, which extend through and are insulated from the structural layer; a piezoelectric resonator having first and second ends electrically coupled, respectively, to the first and second conductive pads, and extending in the cavity; and third and fourth conductive pads positioned outside the cavity and electrically coupled to second terminal portions of the first and second conductive paths. | 05-30-2013 |
20140104009 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR WITH ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE (ESD) COMPLIANT DRIVE LEVEL LIMITER - A crystal oscillator may be configured to limit crystal drive level in the crystal oscillator by clamping via a diode-resistor branch, voltage applied to a drain pad of the crystal oscillator. The crystal oscillator may incorporate Pierce crystal oscillator based implementation. The crystal oscillator may comprise an on-chip main branch, comprising at least one transistor element; an on-chip drain branch connecting the main branch to a drain pad; an on-chip gate branch connecting the main branch to a gate pad. The diode-resistor branch may be connected to the drain branch, and may comprise at least one diode and at least one resistor element. The at least one diode and the at least one resistor element may be connected in series in the diode-resistor branch. The clamped voltage may be applied from an off-chip drain node, through the drain pad. | 04-17-2014 |
20140125422 | SELF-OSCILLATION CIRCUIT - A self-oscillation circuit includes an oscillating unit, an amplifying unit, and a resonator. The oscillating unit is configured to self-oscillate. The amplifying unit is configured to amplify a frequency signal oscillated at the oscillating unit and to feed back the amplified frequency signal to the oscillating unit. The resonator is disposed in an oscillation loop that includes the oscillating unit and the amplifying unit. The resonator has a resonant frequency near an oscillation frequency of the oscillating unit and has a higher Q-value than a Q-value of the oscillating unit. | 05-08-2014 |
20140253252 | OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT - An oscillator circuit includes a crystal unit, a first variable capacitance element, a transistor, and a first capacitance element. The first variable capacitance element is disposed between a first terminal of the crystal unit and a ground. The transistor has a base connected to a second terminal of the crystal unit. The first capacitance element is disposed between an emitter and a collector of the transistor. | 09-11-2014 |
20140292430 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND OSCILLATOR - An electronic device according to an aspect of the invention include: a substrate; an underlayer having an opening and being formed on the substrate; a functional element provided on the underlayer; and a surrounding wall forming a cavity that accommodates the functional element, at least a part of the surrounding wall being disposed in the opening. | 10-02-2014 |
20140340162 | OSCILLATOR - An oscillator includes: a piezoelectric material to vibrate; a first inverting amplifier; a second inverting amplifier; a first output electrode to apply an output signal of the first inverting amplifier to the piezoelectric material; a second output electrode to apply an output signal of the second inverting amplifier to the piezoelectric material; a first input electrode to receive a voltage signal generated by the piezoelectric material and output the voltage signal to the first inverting amplifier; and a second input electrode to receive the voltage signal and output the voltage signal to the second inverting amplifier, wherein the first and second output electrodes are coupled to the piezoelectric material so that faces of the piezoelectric material move in opposite directions, and the first and second input electrodes are coupled to the piezoelectric material so that the voltage signals are input to the first and second input electrodes. | 11-20-2014 |
20150042408 | SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATOR, SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE OSCILLATOR, AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT - A SAW resonator which, using a quartz crystal substrate with Euler angles (−1.5°≦φ≦1.5°, 117°≦θ≦142°, and 41.9°≦|ψ|≦49.57°, includes an IDT that excites a stop band upper end mode SAW, and an inter-electrode finger groove provided between electrode fingers configuring the IDT. When a wavelength of the SAW is λ, a first depth of the inter-electrode finger groove is G, a line occupation rate of the IDT is η, and an electrode film thickness of the IDT is H, λ, G, η and H satisfy the relationship of 002-12-2015 | |
20150145611 | OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT, OSCILLATOR, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND MOVING OBJECT - An oscillator circuit includes an oscillating amplifier circuit to which an oscillator element is connected, and which generates an oscillation signal, and a plurality of MOS type variable capacitance elements each having two terminals, one of which is electrically connected to the oscillating amplifier circuit, the MOS type variable capacitance elements have respective threshold voltages different from each other, a control voltage is applied to one of the terminals of each of the MOS type variable capacitance elements, and a reference voltage is applied to the other of the terminals of each of the MOS type variable capacitance elements. It is also possible for the MOS type variable capacitance elements to be different from each other in dope amount of impurities to a semiconductor layer below a gate electrode. | 05-28-2015 |
20150365050 | OSCILLATION CIRCUIT, OSCILLATOR, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND MOVING OBJECT - An oscillation circuit includes a circuit for oscillation and a signal adjustment circuit connected to the circuit for oscillation. An input voltage based on a direct-current voltage, a voltage value of which can be changed, is input to the circuit for oscillation and the signal adjustment circuit. The circuit for oscillation causes a vibration piece to oscillate and outputs a first oscillation signal. A frequency of the first oscillation signal is adjusted according to the voltage value output from the signal adjustment circuit. | 12-17-2015 |
20160036383 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATION CIRCUIT - A crystal oscillation circuit is provided with a crystal oscillator, an inverter unit coupled in parallel with the crystal oscillator and including a plurality of inverters, a current supply unit that supplies current to at least a first inverter of the plurality of inverters a signal converter that supplies current to at least a last inverter of the plurality of inverters and outputs a voltage to an external circuit, and a current controller that makes the current supply unit provide current corresponding to a voltage level of the output voltage of the signal converter. The crystal oscillation circuit is capable of reducing power consumption. | 02-04-2016 |
20160072438 | DYNAMIC GEARSHIFT DURING OSCILLATOR BUILD-UP BASED ON DUTY CYCLE - A dynamic gearshifting system includes a monitoring device configured to monitor a duty cycle of a clock output signal of a crystal oscillator circuit during oscillation buildup upon power-up of the crystal oscillator circuit. The dynamic gearshifting system also includes a detecting device configured to detect whether the duty cycle of the clock output signal of the crystal oscillator circuit meets a duty cycle threshold value. The dynamic gearshifting system may further include an assertion device configured to assert a control signal based on detecting the duty cycle meets the duty cycle threshold value. The asserted control signal configured to dynamically adjust a transconductance of the crystal oscillator circuit. | 03-10-2016 |
20160087583 | Oscillator, Electronic Apparatus, and Moving Object - An oscillator includes a circuit board including a supporting substrate (base member), a first VCXO (a first oscillator circuit), a second VCXO (a second oscillator circuit), and a ground terminal (terminal for ground). The first VCXO and the second VCXO are configured such that a second output frequency that is output from the second VCXO is higher than a first output frequency that is output from the first VCXO. The second VCXO is placed closer to the ground terminal than the first VCXO. | 03-24-2016 |
20160164461 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATION DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A wiring pattern for oscillation input signal and a wiring pattern for oscillation output signal are provided on a printed circuit board, and a wiring pattern for ground power source voltage is arranged in a region therebetween. A quartz crystal unit is connected between the wiring pattern for oscillation input signal and the wiring pattern for oscillation output signal and one ends of capacitors serving as load capacitors thereof are connected to the wiring pattern for ground power source voltage. Further, a wiring pattern for VSS is arranged so as to enclose these wiring patterns, and a wiring pattern for VSS is arranged also in a lower layer in addition thereto. By this means, reduction of a parasitic capacitance between an XIN node and an XOUT node, improvement in noise tolerance of these nodes and others can be achieved. | 06-09-2016 |
20090212877 | MEMS OSCILLATOR - Provided is a MEMS oscillation circuit which performs temperature compensation of a MEMS resonator with a simple circuit, which is mild so that an output clock does not have jitter, and which makes the range of fluctuations of a reference frequency from a reference value equivalent to a range of digital processing. The MEMS oscillator includes a MEMS resonator, a temperature measurement unit for measuring a temperature and outputting a detected voltage corresponding to the temperature, and a bias voltage control circuit for applying the MEMS resonator with a bias voltage which changes the resonant frequency of the MEMS resonator in a manner opposite to a change of the resonant frequency of the MEMS resonator due to temperature change correspondingly to the detected voltage. | 08-27-2009 |
20090243737 | MEMS oscillator - A discharge electrode is provided on the opposite side of a fixed electrode with a beam portion being sandwiched therebetween. When the frequency of the MEMS oscillator is regulated by increasing the mass of a vibration element, the vibration element is used as a positive electrode and the discharge electrode as a negative electrode, and a direct current voltage is applied until an arc discharge occurs. When an arc discharge occurs between the vibration element and discharge electrode, an inert gas is ionized to become positive ions to collide against the discharge electrode to sputter or evaporate the material of the discharge electrode. A portion of discharged material from the discharge electrode adheres to the vibration element, therefore, the mass of the vibration element is increased to reduce a resonance frequency of the MEMS oscillator. | 10-01-2009 |
20100134194 | SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE DRIVING CIRCUIT AND OSCILLATOR THEREFOR - A driving circuit of a surface wave resonator (X | 06-03-2010 |
20140312984 | OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT - An oscillator circuit includes a first resonator, a second resonator, and a frequency adjusting unit. The second resonator has a frequency characteristic different from a frequency characteristic of the first resonator. The frequency adjusting unit is configured to change a ratio between a contribution of the first resonator and a contribution of the second resonator so as to adjust an output frequency. | 10-23-2014 |
20080252390 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT - A crystal oscillator circuit includes a capacitive load stage (C | 10-16-2008 |
20080284533 | ELECTRICAL OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT AND AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An electrical oscillator circuit comprising: a resonator comprised in the first subcircuit; and an active device comprised in the second subcircuit connected to energize the resonator to provide an oscillating electrical signal transmitted as a differential signal via electrical conductors to the second subcircuit. The oscillator is characterized in that the second subcircuit comprises means for receiving the differential signal transmitted via the electrical conductors and converting the differential signal to a single-ended signal with reference to the signal ground reference of the second subcircuit. Thereby a noise robust oscillator signal is provided with the use of very few components. Particularly suitable for oscillators embodied in an integrated circuit with the resonator mounted on a printed circuit board, PCB. And an integrated circuit. | 11-20-2008 |
20090058546 | OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT - An oscillator circuit includes a first terminal, a second terminal, a resonator that is connected to the first terminal and the second terminal, a first capacitor that is connected to the first terminal and a ground line supplying the ground electric potential, a second capacitor that is connected to the second terminal and the ground line, m inverters, where m is an odd number equal to or larger than three, which are connected in series between the first terminal and the second terminal, and a third capacitor that is connected to an input terminal of the n-th (where n is an integer satisfying 1≦n03-05-2009 | |
20090096541 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT HAVING FAST START-UP AND METHOD THEREFOR - In one embodiment, a method of programming an oscillator circuit includes providing a resonator, a first programmable capacitor, a second programmable capacitor, and an amplifier. The first programmable capacitor and the second programmable capacitor may be programmed at a first capacitance value during a first time period, wherein the first programmable capacitor provides a first voltage to bias the resonator and the amplifier alters the second voltage to provide a third voltage to the resonator. During a second time period the first capacitance value is increased. | 04-16-2009 |
20090134947 | Green technology platform for green chip design of MS0-GBQ-AMC-LCO clock, PLL-free SerDes, tire safety, inductorless-PMU & PA on vialess-ESDSL-PCB - The fundamental breakthrough in green technology is the planar EMI-Free Planar Inductor. The EMI-Free Planar Inductor is the backbone of the platform of green technology. The platform of green technology contains the Xtaless ClockChip, Inductorless PMU & PA and ESDS-PCB to provide the green technology for green chip design. Especially for the 4 | 05-28-2009 |
20100026402 | Low phase noise differential crystal oscillator circuit - A differential crystal oscillator circuit uses a bias transistor to generate a bias voltage from a bias current. The bias voltage is supplied to the control terminals of a differential pair of transistors. The differential transistors operate to produce a differential output between corresponding end terminals thereof, which is provided to a reference crystal oscillator to establish an oscillation frequency at the differential output. | 02-04-2010 |
20100134193 | OSCILLATION CIRCUIT - An oscillation circuit according to the present invention comprises a solid-state oscillator, an amplifier for feedback-controlling the solid-state oscillator, and ESD protecting circuits respectively connected to the input and output sides of the amplifier, wherein the ESD protecting circuit on the input side of the amplifier comprises an ESD protecting element whose constituent is a diode having a P-type diffusion layer and an N-type diffusion layer, and the ESD protecting circuit on the output side of the amplifier comprises an ESD protecting element whose constituent is an MOS transistor. | 06-03-2010 |
20100148880 | Method and System for Forming Resonators Over CMOS - In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a semiconductor substrate includes complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) circuitry disposed outwardly from the semiconductor substrate. An electrode is disposed outwardly from the CMOS circuitry. The electrode is electrically coupled to the CMOS circuitry. A resonator is disposed outwardly from the electrode. The resonator is operable to oscillate at a resonance frequency in response to an electrostatic field propagated, at least in part, by the electrode. | 06-17-2010 |
20100182094 | CONSTANT CURRENT DRIVEN OSCILLATING CIRCUIT - There is provided a constant current driven oscillating circuit including: an oscillator with first and second ends; a first field effect transistor that turns ON when a signal of a lower level than a first threshold voltage is input to a first gate terminal, and outputs, from a second terminal, current that has been input from a first terminal; a second field effect transistor turning ON when a signal output from the oscillator and is at a higher level than a second threshold voltage is input to a second gate terminal connected to the second end of the oscillator, and outputs, from a fourth terminal, current that has been input from a third terminal connected to the second terminal and to the first end of the oscillator; and an adjusting section that adjusts the first threshold voltage according to the level of the signal output from the oscillator. | 07-22-2010 |
20100259335 | RESISTORLESS FEEDBACK BIASING FOR ULTRA LOW POWER CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR - An operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) is used as the DC bias feedback of a crystal oscillator to minimize temperature, voltage and process corner variations thereof, and thereby improve the reliability of crystal oscillator operation at ultra low power levels. | 10-14-2010 |
20100321123 | LOW POWER CONSUMING QUARTZ OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT WITH ACTIVE POLARISATION - The quartz oscillator circuit includes an inverter comprising two complementary PMOS and NMOS transistors (P | 12-23-2010 |
20110037525 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR - This invention discloses a crystal oscillator, in which by appropriately designing the gain of an amplifier to achieve high trans-conductance and low power consumption. This crystal oscillator includes a first pad, coupled to a first node of a crystal, for receiving a crystal oscillating signal outputted from the crystal; an amplifier, coupled to the first pad, for amplifying the crystal oscillating signal to generate an amplifying signal; an inverter, coupled to the amplifier, for inverting the amplifying signal; and a second pad, coupled to a second node of the crystal, for outputting an oscillating signal to the crystal. | 02-17-2011 |
20110090016 | OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT WITH A FAST TRANSIENT - An oscillator circuit for producing a frequency signal has a resonator element, an amplifier circuit and a coupling apparatus. The coupling apparatus connects the amplifier circuit to the resonator element for the duration of a switching-on process in the oscillator circuit. | 04-21-2011 |
20110121908 | Mems Resonator and Manufacturing Method of the Same - A resonator with a microeletromechanical system structure has a transistor with a gate electrode, a capacitor with an upper and lower electrode, a substrate, a first and second structure of the microelectromechanical system structure, a first silicon layer of the first structure and the upper electrode formed above the substrate, a second silicon layer of the second structure and the gate electrode unit formed above the substrate, and an insulating film formed above the capacitor and the transistor, the insulating film having an opening for placement of the second structure. | 05-26-2011 |
20110148533 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR WITH FAST START-UP AND LOW CURRENT CONSUMPTION - An oscillator comprises an inverter, with a resonator connected between an input and an output of the inverter. A transistor external to the inverter is connected in a current mirror mode with a transistor of the inverter so that the inverter's transistor copies the current of the external transistor. The external transistor has its drain terminal connected to the gate terminals of the inverter's transistor and of the external transistor. A current source is connected to the gate terminal of the inverter's transistor, and a switch is connected between the drain and gate terminals of the external transistor. Circuitry controls the switch so as to open the connection between the drain and gate terminals of the external transistor at the beginning of a start-up phase of the oscillator. | 06-23-2011 |
20120081187 | Oscillator - An oscillator outputs a sine wave with high purity capable of reducing phase noise. In a Colpitts oscillator circuit using a transistor as an amplifying part, a quartz-crystal resonator for waveform shaping is provided outside or inside an oscillation loop. A quartz-crystal resonator for oscillation and the quartz-crystal resonator for waveform shaping are formed, with an electrode pair and an electrode pair being provided on a common quartz-crystal piece. A separation distance between the electrode of the quartz-crystal resonator and the electrode of the quartz-crystal resonator is set large so that they are not elastically coupled, or even when they are elastically coupled, their coupling degree is weak, and an inductor causing parallel resonance with a parallel capacitance of the quartz-crystal resonator is provided. | 04-05-2012 |
20120092080 | OSCILLATOR - Provided is a temperature compensated oscillator includes an oscillation circuit for oscillating an oscillator. In the oscillator, when an oscillation frequency is changed by a second control signal after being controlled by a first control signal, variation in the oscillation frequency due to a second control signal is set to a fixed amount. The oscillation frequency of the oscillator is controlled on the basis of both the first control signal and the second control signal, but an oscillation amplitude adjusting section is also added, the oscillation amplitude adjusting section allowing the oscillation amplitude of the oscillator to be changed by the second control signal. The oscillator thus allows a fixed amount of oscillation frequency control over a wide range (full range) of oscillation frequency control due to the first control signal. | 04-19-2012 |
20120154066 | OSCILLATOR, AND CLOCK GENERATOR, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - An oscillator includes a reference voltage generator, an oscillation element configured to oscillate by either a drive voltage or a drive current and output an oscillation signal, a peak hold element configured to detect a peak level of the oscillation signal for output; and a controller configured to increase or decrease the drive voltage or drive current in accordance with the reference voltage generated by the reference voltage generator and the peak level output from the peak hold element. | 06-21-2012 |
20120161888 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT - An embodiment of a crystal oscillator circuit includes leakage-current compensation, transconductance enhancement, or both leakage-current compensation and transconductance enhancement. Such an oscillator circuit may draw a reduced operating current relative to a conventional oscillator circuit, and thus may be suitable for battery or other low-power applications. | 06-28-2012 |
20120161889 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATION DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A wiring pattern for oscillation input signal and a wiring pattern for oscillation output signal are provided on a printed circuit board, and a wiring pattern for ground power source voltage is arranged in a region therebetween. A quartz crystal unit is connected between the wiring pattern for oscillation input signal and the wiring pattern for oscillation output signal and one ends of capacitors serving as load capacitors thereof are connected to the wiring pattern for ground power source voltage. Further, a wiring pattern for VSS is arranged so as to enclose these wiring patterns, and a wiring pattern for VSS is arranged also in a lower layer in addition thereto. By this means, reduction of a parasitic capacitance between an XIN node and an XOUT node, improvement in noise tolerance of these nodes and others can be achieved. | 06-28-2012 |
20120200363 | PIEZOELECTRIC OSCILLATOR - Provided is a piezoelectric oscillator to attain high-frequency performance and frequency stabilization with the use of reflection characteristics of a reflective element. A piezoelectric oscillator is configured such that: a resonant circuit is connected to a gate of a field effect transistor; an output terminal is connected to a drain and a power supply voltage V is applied to the drain; a piezoelectric resonator is connected to a source, as a reflective element; and a resonance frequency of the resonant circuit and an oscillation frequency of the piezoelectric resonator as a reflective element are set to substantially the same frequency, and further, the piezoelectric oscillator may be configured such that a first matching circuit is provided between the resonant circuit and the gate, a second matching circuit is provided between the drain and the output terminal, and a third matching circuit is provided between the source and the reflective element. | 08-09-2012 |
20120212299 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING DESIGN VALUES FOR CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - According to the invention, two of three design values, i.e., the negative resistance RL, load capacitance CL and drive current Ios of a crystal oscillator circuit including a crystal resonator are determined to determine the remaining one design value from a relation equation or relation graph. As a result, reducing the CL of the crystal oscillator circuit allows the drive current Ios to be reduced, achieving reduced power consumption of the crystal oscillator circuit. | 08-23-2012 |
20130120074 | MULTI-FREQUENCY RECONFIGURABLE VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR (VCO) AND METHOD OF PROVIDING SAME - A multiple frequency reconfigurable voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) ( | 05-16-2013 |
20130265115 | QUARTZ OSCILLATOR MODULE - A quartz oscillator module includes a first quartz oscillator, a second quartz oscillator, a first electronic switch, and a second electronic switch. The first and second quartz oscillators provide two different clock signals. When the first electronic switch is turned on, the first quartz oscillator is activated. When the second electronic switch is turned on, the second quartz oscillator is activated. | 10-10-2013 |
20130300512 | CLOCK GENERATOR FOR CRYSTAL OR CERAMIC OSCILLATOR AND FILTER SYSTEM FOR SAME - A clock generator is disclosed for use with an oscillator device. The clock generator may include a signal conditioning pre-filter and a comparator. The signal conditioner may have an input for a signal from the oscillator device, and may include a high pass filter component and a low pass filter component. The high pass filter component may pass amplitude and frequency components of the input oscillator signal but reject a common mode component of the oscillator signal. Instead, the high pass filter component further may generate its own common mode component locally over which the high frequency components are superimposed. The low pass filter component may generate a second output signal that represents the locally-generated common mode component of the first output signal. The clock generator may have a comparator as an input stage which is coupled to first and second outputs of the filter structure. | 11-14-2013 |
20140022025 | HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT AND METHOD TO OPERATE SAME - A method includes providing an oscillator having a field effect transistor connected with a resonant circuit. The field effect transistor has a gate electrode coupled to a source of gate voltage, a source electrode, a drain electrode and a graphene channel disposed between the source electrode and the drain electrode and electrically connected thereto. The method further includes biasing the graphene channel via the gate electrode into a negative differential resistance region of operation to cause the oscillator to generate a frequency signal having a resonant frequency f0. There can be an additional step of varying the gate voltage so as to bias the graphene channel into the negative differential resistance region of operation and out of the negative differential resistance region of operation so as to turn on the frequency signal and to turn off the frequency signal, respectively. | 01-23-2014 |
20140062609 | XTAL oscillator - Resistor bias circuitry is included in components of an XTAL oscillator system to reduce 1/f noise. An XTAL oscillator includes a resistor bias circuit attached to the XTAL core. A common mode feedback OP amp connected to the XTAL core also includes a resistor bias circuit. An XTAL oscillator chain includes an XTAL core, common mode feedback OP amp, common mode logic buffer (CML BF), and differential to CMOS converter (D2C) each with resistor bias circuitry. | 03-06-2014 |
20140320223 | SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS, OSCILLATION CIRCUIT, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM - A semiconductor apparatus includes: first and second external terminals that are connected to respective both ends of an piezoelectric vibrator, in which the piezoelectric vibrator is externally disposed; an inverting amplifier that is disposed between the first and second external terminals; a feedback resistance that feeds back an output of the inverting amplifier to an input of the inverting amplifier; a first capacitative element that is disposed between the first external terminal and a reference voltage terminal; a first resistive element that is disposed in series with the first capacitative element; a second capacitative element that is disposed between the second external terminal and the reference voltage terminal; and a second resistive element that is disposed in series with the second capacitative element. | 10-30-2014 |
20150061786 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT HAVING LOW POWER CONSUMPTION, LOW JITTER AND WIDE OPERATING RANGE - A crystal oscillator circuit includes: a crystal resonator circuit, generating an oscillation signal; an inverting amplification circuit, whose first amplifier input end is coupled to receive the oscillation signal, in which an inverting amplifier outputs an inverting amplified output signal; a bias circuit, having a bias circuit input end and a bias circuit output end, in which the bias circuit output end generates a bias circuit output signal controlled by the bias circuit input end, and the bias circuit output signal is coupled to a second amplifier input end; and a peak detection circuit, comparing the inverting amplified output signal with a reference signal, regulating a peak detector output signal, and feeding the peak detector output signal into the bias circuit input end, in which the bias circuit includes a self-adjusting circuit, for isolating a power supply from a second input end of the inverting amplifier. | 03-05-2015 |
20150116048 | OSCILLATION CIRCUIT, OSCILLATOR, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OSCILLATOR, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND MOVING OBJECT - An oscillation circuit includes: an oscillation unit which includes a first terminal and a second terminal connected to a vibrator; a third terminal to which a ground potential is supplied; a fourth terminal which is electrically connected to the second terminal, and to which at least one of an AC voltage for driving the vibrator and a voltage for operating the oscillation unit is applied; and a first switching unit which switches modes of electrical connection between the first terminal and the third terminal. | 04-30-2015 |
20160028349 | Differential Crystal Oscillator Circuit - A differential crystal oscillator circuit, including: first and second output terminals; a cross-coupled oscillation unit including first and second transistors cross-coupled to the first and second output terminals; first and second metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) diodes, each MOSFET diode including a resistor connected between gate and drain terminals, wherein the first MOSFET diode couples to the first transistor to provide low-impedance load at low frequencies and high-impedance load at higher frequencies to the first transistor, wherein the second MOSFET diode couples to the second transistor to provide low-impedance load at low frequencies and high-impedance load at higher frequencies to the second transistor; and a reference resonator coupled between the first and second output terminals to establish an oscillation frequency. | 01-28-2016 |
20160072497 | Low Phase Noise Technique for a Crystal Oscillator Circuit - In aspects of a low phase noise technique for use with a crystal oscillator, a bias control circuit sets a bias voltage on the gate of a first transistor needed to sink or source an amount of current corresponding to a sensed common mode signal. The sensed common mode signal is sensed with a common mode sense circuit that is coupled across two ports of the crystal oscillator, and current is provided by a current source. The bias voltage is set by a bias controller that uses a second transistor coupled to the common mode sense circuit and the first transistor. | 03-10-2016 |
20160099682 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR - A crystal oscillator, including: a voltage stabilizing unit, a transconductance unit, a feedback resistor, a crystal resonator and at least two ground capacitors. The voltage stabilizing unit includes a current source and a first branch circuit including PMOS and NMOS connected in series, PMOS has its source connected to output of the current source, PMOS and NMOS have their gates connected to drains thereof, and NMOS has its source connected to ground. The transconductance unit includes a second branch circuit including PMOS and NMOS connected in series, PMOS has its source connected to output of the voltage stabilizing unit, PMOS and NMOS have their gates connected to input of the crystal resonator and one end of the resistor, and have their drains connected to output of the crystal resonator and another end of the resistor. The capacitors are connected to two ends of the crystal resonator respectively and ground. | 04-07-2016 |
20160105147 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR START-UP CIRCUIT - A crystal oscillator start-up circuit capable of reducing a start-up time of a crystal oscillator is disclosed. The crystal oscillator start-up circuit is provided with a crystal oscillation unit including a crystal oscillator, a converter and an external oscillator. The crystal oscillation unit generates an output signal corresponding to the impedance characteristic of the crystal oscillator. The converter converts the output signal of the crystal oscillation unit to a voltage signal. The external oscillator outputs to the crystal oscillation unit an oscillation signal whose frequency is adjusted by the voltage signal to approach a resonance frequency of the crystal oscillator. | 04-14-2016 |
20160164462 | SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS, OSCILLATION CIRCUIT, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM - A semiconductor apparatus includes: first and second external terminals that are connected to respective both ends of an piezoelectric vibrator, in which the piezoelectric vibrator is externally disposed; an inverting amplifier that is disposed between the first and second external terminals; a feedback resistance that feeds back an output of the inverting amplifier to an input of the inverting amplifier; a first capacitative element that is disposed between the first external terminal and a reference voltage terminal; a first resistive element that is disposed in series with the first capacitative element; a second capacitative element that is disposed between the second external terminal and the reference voltage terminal; and a second resistive element that is disposed in series with the second capacitative element. | 06-09-2016 |
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20160380590 | LOW-POWER BALANCED CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR - A circuit includes: first and second output terminals; a reference resonator coupled between the first and second output terminals; a cross-coupled oscillation unit coupled to the first and second output terminals; a first MOSFET diode coupled to the cross-coupled oscillation unit, the first MOSFET diode including a first transistor, a first resistor coupled between gate and drain terminals of the first transistor, and a first capacitor; a second MOSFET diode coupled to the cross-coupled oscillation unit, the second MOSFET diode including a second transistor, a second resistor coupled between gate and drain terminals of the second transistor, and a second capacitor cross coupled between the drain terminal of the second transistor and the gate terminal of the first transistor, wherein the first capacitor is cross coupled between the drain terminal of the first transistor and the gate terminal of the second transistor. | 12-29-2016 |
331116000 | Electromechanical resonators other than piezoelectric crystals | 4 |
20080297264 | Oscillating Circuit - An oscillating circuit includes an analog oscillation element. The oscillating circuit includes at least one analog-to-digital conversion device. A method is for operating an oscillating circuit, in which a mechanical oscillator oscillates at a natural frequency. The oscillation amplitude is measured and digitized. A digital control signal is generated from this with the aid of a digital amplitude controller. A driving signal is generated, in turn, from the digital control signal, the driving signal driving the mechanical oscillator with the aid of a drive unit. This control loop stabilizes the oscillation amplitude. | 12-04-2008 |
20080297265 | 4Less-TSOC of XLC, QBXOCK, QBTCXO, QBVCXO, SMLDVR and ANLVCO or 4Free-TSOC of XLC, QBXOCK, QBTCXO, QBVCXO, SMLDVR and ANLKVCO - Even the 4Less-Xtaless, Capless, Indless, Dioless TSOC Design of SOC or 4Free-Xtafree, Capfree, Indfree, Diofree TSOC Design of SOC is developed for the TSOC True System-On-Chip, the 4Less/4Free technologies can still be applied to the conventional XCLK, PMU, etc chip design to have the drastically fantastical improvements over the conventional crystal clock and power management unit chips. The application of 4Less/4Free-TSOC technology to the conventional crystal oscillator to be the QBXOCK Q-Boost Crystal Oscillator Clock, QBTCXO Q-Boost Temperature Cancelling Crystal Oscillator Clock and QBVCXO Q-Boost Voltage Control Crystal Oscillator Clock. Temperature cancelling technique is different from temperature compensation technique. Temperature cancelling technique gets rid of the temperature effect completely. However, the temperature compensation technique still has the residue temperature effect which cannot be compensated with the trimming bits. The application of 4Less/4Free-TSOC technology to the conventional PMU is the SMLDVR Switch Mode & Low Drop Voltage Regulator to have one power supply having two operation modes of switch mode and low drop voltage regulator to have the ultra-extended battery life for portable devices. The application of 4Less/4Free-TSOC technology to the conventional PLL is to have the ANLVCO Adaptive Non-Linear VCO to have the ultra-performance of clock jitter being much less than 1 ps. For the high frequency Network system such as Ethernet, WiMAX, Fiber optics, etc, the ANLVCO is the core technology. | 12-04-2008 |
20080315965 | THIRD OVERTONE CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR - A third overtone crystal oscillator has an oscillator IC and a crystal element accommodated in a container. The IC includes transistor grounded at its emitter, a first capacitor connected to the base of the transistor via a DC blocking capacitor and to the ground potential, and a second capacitor connected between the collector of the transistor and the ground potential. Both ends of the crystal element are connected to non-grounded ends of the first and second capacitors, respectively. A spiral inductor forming a parallel resonant circuit together with the first capacitor, is provided at the container, using a printing process, for example, being independent of the IC. The parallel resonant frequency of the parallel resonant circuit is set higher than the oscillation frequency at the fundamental wave of the crystal element, and lower than the oscillation frequency at the third overtone of the crystal element. | 12-25-2008 |
20090015341 | Piezoelectric oscillator - In order to remove external noise of the same phase, such as a power supply noise, on an crystal oscillator, one oscillation output has been conventionally obtained from one oscillation circuit, and by using a differential amplifier, the one oscillation output is turned into two oscillation outputs that are 180 degrees out of phase. However, it has been impossible to remove the noise of the same phase that occurs in the oscillation circuit. According to the present invention, there is provided a piezoelectric oscillator including a piezoelectric vibrator, and first and second oscillation circuits, and comprising a configuration such that an input terminal of the first oscillation circuit and one terminal of the piezoelectric vibrator are connected, an input terminal of the second oscillation circuit and the other terminal of the piezoelectric vibrator are connected, characterized in that: oscillation outputs that are 180 degrees out of phase to each other are obtained from outputs of the first and second oscillation circuits. | 01-15-2009 |
20090015342 | Fast startup resonant element oscillator - A startup circuit | 01-15-2009 |
20090121799 | PIEZOELECTRIC OSCILLATOR - A piezoelectric oscillator includes: a piezoelectric resonator; an oscillation circuit including a variable resistance circuit and a transistor for oscillation; a constant current circuit, the constant current circuit including a first current mirror circuit, and a current control circuit having an output terminal and controlling a current flowing in the first current circuit so as to enable an output current of the constant current circuit to be adjusted, the output terminal of the first current mirror circuit being coupled to at least one of a collector and a base of the transistor for oscillation with the variable resistance circuit; and a control circuit coupled to the current control circuit and the variable resistance circuit, the control circuit controlling the current control circuit and a resistance value of the variable resistance circuit. | 05-14-2009 |
20090146750 | Common Mode Controller for a Clock, Frequency Reference, and Other Reference Signal Generator - Exemplary embodiments of the invention provide a reference signal generator, system and method. An exemplary apparatus to generate a harmonic reference signal includes a reference resonator, such as an LC-tank, and a common mode controller. The reference resonator generates a first reference signal having a resonant frequency, and the common mode controller maintains substantially constant a common mode voltage level of the reference resonator. An amplitude controller may also be included to maintain substantially constant a magnitude of a peak amplitude of the first reference signal. A temperature-dependent control voltage also may be generated and utilized to maintain the resonant frequency substantially constant or within a predetermined variance of a calibrated or selected frequency. | 06-11-2009 |
20090153257 | PIEZOELECTRIC OSCILLATOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A piezoelectric oscillator includes: a piezoelectric resonator including a container, the container containing a piezoelectric resonator element: and a semiconductor device including an oscillation circuit for vibrating the piezoelectric resonator. The semiconductor device is bonded to a surface of the container. The container has an external coupling terminal and a cut-off part, the external coupling terminal being coupled to the semiconductor device, the cut-off part being disposed on a side surface of the container. The external coupling terminal is disposed in an area of the container, the area being opposed to the semiconductor device, and in the cut-off part. The semiconductor device has a coupling terminal on a surface thereof, the surface being opposed to the container. The coupling terminal of the semiconductor device and the external coupling terminal of the container are coupled with a conductive material. | 06-18-2009 |
20090219103 | Oscillator Arrangement and Method for Operating an Oscillating Crystal - The oscillator arrangement ( | 09-03-2009 |
20090267699 | TIMING OSCILLATORS AND RELATED METHODS - Timing oscillators as well as related methods and devices are described. A timing oscillator may include a mechanical resonating structure with major elements and minor elements coupled to the major element. The timing oscillator can generate stable signals with low phase noise at very high frequencies which allows a timing oscillator to be used effectively in a number of devices including computers and mobile phones for time and data synchronization purposes. The signal generated by the timing oscillator can be tuned using a driver circuit and a compensation circuit. | 10-29-2009 |
20100026403 | SELECTABLE DRIVE STRENGTH HIGH FREQUENCY CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT - A method, system, and apparatus to a selectable drive strength high frequency crystal oscillator circuit are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a crystal oscillator circuit to generate a signal with a specified frequency value, and a programmable amplifier circuit containing a plurality of programmable inverting amplifiers, and wherein certain ones of a plurality of inverting amplifiers are operated to change a gain and/or a bandwidth of the signal according to the specified frequency value of the crystal oscillator circuit. The system may include further comprising a resistor circuit coupled in parallel to the programmable amplifier circuit to set an operating point of the programmable amplifier circuit. | 02-04-2010 |
20100301954 | PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER, PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER MANUFACTURING METHOD, OSCILLATOR, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND RADIO CLOCK - Provided are: a piezoelectric oscillation piece which has a pair of oscillation arms disposed in parallel with each other with base ends of the oscillation arms fixed to a base of the piezoelectric oscillation piece and with weight metal films formed at the tips of the oscillation arms; a base substrate on the upper surface of which the piezoelectric oscillation piece is mounted; a lid substrate joined with the base substrate such that the mounted piezoelectric oscillation piece can be accommodated in a cavity; and a control film disposed in the vicinity of the pair of the oscillation arms as viewed in the plan view and formed at least on either of the substrates in such a manner as to extend from the base end side to the tip side in the longitudinal direction of the oscillation arms for increasing the degree of vacuum inside the cavity by heating. The control film is locally deposited on the side surfaces of the oscillation arms in the vicinity of the control film by heating. | 12-02-2010 |
20100308928 | PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATOR MANUFACTURING METHOD, PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATOR, OSCILLATOR, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND RADIO-CONTROLLED WATCH - The piezoelectric vibrator comprises a base substrate of which the two faces are polished; a lid substrate in which cavity recesses are formed and which is bonded to the base substrate in such a state that the recesses face the base substrate; a piezoelectric vibration member bonded to the upper face of the base substrate in such a state that it is housed in the cavity formed of the recess between the base substrate and the lid substrate; an external electrode formed on the lower face of the base substrate; a through-electrode formed in and through the base substrate and electrically connected with the external electrode with keeping the airtightness inside the cavity; and a routing electrode formed on the upper face of the base substrate to electrically connect the through-electrode to the bonded piezoelectric vibration member. The through-electrode is formed by hardening of a paste containing a plurality of metal fine particles. | 12-09-2010 |
20110012686 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COMPENSATING FOR A RESONATOR - A device for compensating for the frequency of a resonator, includes: a temperature sensor for the resonator; a sequencer determining a second compensation signal on the basis of the temperature value corresponding to a positive value N, and a third compensation signal on the basis of the temperature value, corresponding to a ratio between a positive integer S and N, S being lower than or equal to N; a variable counter receiving the compensation signals and generating a fourth output signal every N periods of a clock signal from the resonator and generating a fifth signal for modifying the charge capacity of the resonator. N includes an integer part Nint and a fractional part Nfrac, and the variable counter includes: an accumulator receiving Nfrac; a dual-module Nint, Nint+1 counter receiving Nint, a counting member connected to the output of the sequencer and to the output of the dual-module counter, and receiving the third and fourth signals, the counting element generating the fifth signal based on the state of S. | 01-20-2011 |
20110037526 | OSCILLATOR - There is provided an oscillator using a high-frequency crystal resonator which can satisfy the drive level needed for the crystal resonator and expand a variable frequency range. An oscillator having an oscillation circuit CC for oscillating the resonator SS is provided with a limiter circuit LM | 02-17-2011 |
20110156826 | RESONATOR ELEMENT, RESONATOR, OSCILLATOR, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND FREQUENCY ADJUSTMENT METHOD - A resonator element includes: a base portion provided on a plane including a first axis and a second axis orthogonal to the first axis; a vibrating arm extending from the base portion in the first axis direction; and a first mass portion for adjusting a resonance frequency of the vibrating arm, wherein the vibrating arm performs flexural vibration in a direction perpendicular to the plane and has a first surface which contracts or expands with the flexural vibration and a second surface which expands when the first surface contracts and contracts when the first surface expands, and wherein the first mass portion is provided on at least one of the first and second surfaces and approximately at the center of the length of the vibrating arm from a base-side end to a tip end thereof. | 06-30-2011 |
20110156827 | RESONATOR ELEMENT, RESONATOR, OSCILLATOR, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND FREQUENCY ADJSUTMENT METHOD - A resonator element includes: a base portion provided on a plane including a first axis and a second axis orthogonal to the first axis; a vibrating arm extending from the base portion in the first axis direction; an excitation electrode provided on the vibrating arm so as to excite the vibrating arm; and a first mass portion provided on the vibrating arm so as to adjust the frequency of the vibrating arm, wherein the vibrating arm performs flexural vibration in a direction perpendicular to the plane and wherein the first mass portion is provided in a region exceeding ½ of the entire length in the first axis direction of the vibrating arm from the end of the vibrating arm close to the base portion and is formed from a material whose density D (in units of 10 | 06-30-2011 |
20110156828 | SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE, OSCILLATOR, MODULE APPARATUS - A surface acoustic wave device includes: a sapphire substrate having a C-plane main surface; comb-like electrodes which excite surface acoustic waves formed on the main surface of the sapphire substrate; an aluminum nitride film which covers the comb-like electrodes and the main surface; and a silicon dioxide film which is formed on the surface of the aluminum nitride film. | 06-30-2011 |
20110204983 | Fundamental wave/overtone crystal oscillator - Provided is a fundamental wave/overtone crystal oscillator to obtain fundamental wave oscillation and overtone oscillation with one crystal unit and to optimize the excitation current depending on the fundamental wave oscillation and the overtone oscillation. The fundamental wave/overtone crystal oscillator includes a crystal unit that oscillates with fundamental waves or with overtones, and an oscillator circuit that amplifies an excitation current from the crystal unit and outputs an oscillatory frequency. A capacitor Cf and a capacitor Co are connected in parallel with the base of a transistor in the oscillator circuit as well as the emitter. A switch is provided so as to connect or disconnect the capacitor Cf with respect to the circuit in response to a switching signal. The switch turns ON when the crystal oscillator oscillates with fundamental waves, and turns OFF when the crystal oscillator oscillates with overtones. | 08-25-2011 |
20120133448 | MECHANICAL OSCILLATOR - A mechanical oscillator arrangement includes a mechanical structure ( | 05-31-2012 |
20120268218 | VIBRATION CIRCUIT - A vibration circuit includes: a micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) vibrator which includes a first electrode and a second electrode which are arranged with a gap therebetween; an amplification section which includes a gain section which has a first input terminal and a first output terminal and of which gain is greater than 1, and a gain restriction section which includes a second input terminal and a second output terminal and of which the gain is less than 1; and an output terminal which is connected to the first output terminal, wherein the first electrode is connected to the first input terminal, wherein the first output terminal is connected to the second input terminal, and wherein the second output terminal is connected to the second electrode. | 10-25-2012 |
20130027143 | ANTIRESONANT FREQUENCY-VARYING COMPLEX RESONANCE CIRCUIT - A complex resonance circuit includes a first current path performing a first phase shift and a first gain control to an AC power signal supplied, at least one second current path performing a second phase shift different in amount from the first phase shift and a second gain control different in amount from the first gain control to the AC power signal, at least two resonant circuits which are provided each on the respective first and second current paths, and have mutually different resonance points or antiresonance points for the AC power signals each passing through the respective first and second current paths and capture the respective AC power signals, and an analog operational circuit for allowing the AC power signals having passed through the first and second current paths to be subjected to addition or subtraction in an analog fashion for output. | 01-31-2013 |
20130135055 | SURFACE MOUNT PIEZOELECTRIC OSCILLATOR - A surface mount piezoelectric oscillator includes a piezoelectric resonator, a mounting board, and an IC chip mounted on the mounting board. An oscillator circuit includes the IC chip and the piezoelectric resonator. The piezoelectric resonator is bonded to the mounting board with solder balls. The mounting board includes a ceramic plate. The mounting board includes connecting terminals and a wiring pattern on the one mounting board principal surface of the mounting board. The connecting terminals are connected to the terminals of the piezoelectric resonator via solder balls. The mounting board includes an intermediate layer on the one mounting board principal surface and integrally formed with the mounting board. The intermediate layer includes solder ball placement openings to position the solder balls in a center of each of the connecting terminals and an IC chip mounting opening to mount the IC chip. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135056 | OSCILLATOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS OF THE SAME - An oscillator device includes: a structural layer extending over a first side of a semiconductor substrate; a semiconductor cap set on the structural layer; a coupling region extending between and hermetically sealing the structural layer and the cap and forming a cavity within the oscillator device; first and second conductive paths extending between the substrate and the structural layer; first and second conductive pads housed in the cavity and electrically coupled to first terminal portions of the first and second conductive paths by first and second connection regions, respectively, which extend through and are insulated from the structural layer; a piezoelectric resonator having first and second ends electrically coupled, respectively, to the first and second conductive pads, and extending in the cavity; and third and fourth conductive pads positioned outside the cavity and electrically coupled to second terminal portions of the first and second conductive paths. | 05-30-2013 |
20140104009 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR WITH ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE (ESD) COMPLIANT DRIVE LEVEL LIMITER - A crystal oscillator may be configured to limit crystal drive level in the crystal oscillator by clamping via a diode-resistor branch, voltage applied to a drain pad of the crystal oscillator. The crystal oscillator may incorporate Pierce crystal oscillator based implementation. The crystal oscillator may comprise an on-chip main branch, comprising at least one transistor element; an on-chip drain branch connecting the main branch to a drain pad; an on-chip gate branch connecting the main branch to a gate pad. The diode-resistor branch may be connected to the drain branch, and may comprise at least one diode and at least one resistor element. The at least one diode and the at least one resistor element may be connected in series in the diode-resistor branch. The clamped voltage may be applied from an off-chip drain node, through the drain pad. | 04-17-2014 |
20140125422 | SELF-OSCILLATION CIRCUIT - A self-oscillation circuit includes an oscillating unit, an amplifying unit, and a resonator. The oscillating unit is configured to self-oscillate. The amplifying unit is configured to amplify a frequency signal oscillated at the oscillating unit and to feed back the amplified frequency signal to the oscillating unit. The resonator is disposed in an oscillation loop that includes the oscillating unit and the amplifying unit. The resonator has a resonant frequency near an oscillation frequency of the oscillating unit and has a higher Q-value than a Q-value of the oscillating unit. | 05-08-2014 |
20140253252 | OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT - An oscillator circuit includes a crystal unit, a first variable capacitance element, a transistor, and a first capacitance element. The first variable capacitance element is disposed between a first terminal of the crystal unit and a ground. The transistor has a base connected to a second terminal of the crystal unit. The first capacitance element is disposed between an emitter and a collector of the transistor. | 09-11-2014 |
20140292430 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND OSCILLATOR - An electronic device according to an aspect of the invention include: a substrate; an underlayer having an opening and being formed on the substrate; a functional element provided on the underlayer; and a surrounding wall forming a cavity that accommodates the functional element, at least a part of the surrounding wall being disposed in the opening. | 10-02-2014 |
20140340162 | OSCILLATOR - An oscillator includes: a piezoelectric material to vibrate; a first inverting amplifier; a second inverting amplifier; a first output electrode to apply an output signal of the first inverting amplifier to the piezoelectric material; a second output electrode to apply an output signal of the second inverting amplifier to the piezoelectric material; a first input electrode to receive a voltage signal generated by the piezoelectric material and output the voltage signal to the first inverting amplifier; and a second input electrode to receive the voltage signal and output the voltage signal to the second inverting amplifier, wherein the first and second output electrodes are coupled to the piezoelectric material so that faces of the piezoelectric material move in opposite directions, and the first and second input electrodes are coupled to the piezoelectric material so that the voltage signals are input to the first and second input electrodes. | 11-20-2014 |
20150042408 | SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATOR, SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE OSCILLATOR, AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT - A SAW resonator which, using a quartz crystal substrate with Euler angles (−1.5°≦φ≦1.5°, 117°≦θ≦142°, and 41.9°≦|ψ|≦49.57°, includes an IDT that excites a stop band upper end mode SAW, and an inter-electrode finger groove provided between electrode fingers configuring the IDT. When a wavelength of the SAW is λ, a first depth of the inter-electrode finger groove is G, a line occupation rate of the IDT is η, and an electrode film thickness of the IDT is H, λ, G, η and H satisfy the relationship of 002-12-2015 | |
20150145611 | OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT, OSCILLATOR, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND MOVING OBJECT - An oscillator circuit includes an oscillating amplifier circuit to which an oscillator element is connected, and which generates an oscillation signal, and a plurality of MOS type variable capacitance elements each having two terminals, one of which is electrically connected to the oscillating amplifier circuit, the MOS type variable capacitance elements have respective threshold voltages different from each other, a control voltage is applied to one of the terminals of each of the MOS type variable capacitance elements, and a reference voltage is applied to the other of the terminals of each of the MOS type variable capacitance elements. It is also possible for the MOS type variable capacitance elements to be different from each other in dope amount of impurities to a semiconductor layer below a gate electrode. | 05-28-2015 |
20150365050 | OSCILLATION CIRCUIT, OSCILLATOR, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND MOVING OBJECT - An oscillation circuit includes a circuit for oscillation and a signal adjustment circuit connected to the circuit for oscillation. An input voltage based on a direct-current voltage, a voltage value of which can be changed, is input to the circuit for oscillation and the signal adjustment circuit. The circuit for oscillation causes a vibration piece to oscillate and outputs a first oscillation signal. A frequency of the first oscillation signal is adjusted according to the voltage value output from the signal adjustment circuit. | 12-17-2015 |
20160036383 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATION CIRCUIT - A crystal oscillation circuit is provided with a crystal oscillator, an inverter unit coupled in parallel with the crystal oscillator and including a plurality of inverters, a current supply unit that supplies current to at least a first inverter of the plurality of inverters a signal converter that supplies current to at least a last inverter of the plurality of inverters and outputs a voltage to an external circuit, and a current controller that makes the current supply unit provide current corresponding to a voltage level of the output voltage of the signal converter. The crystal oscillation circuit is capable of reducing power consumption. | 02-04-2016 |
20160072438 | DYNAMIC GEARSHIFT DURING OSCILLATOR BUILD-UP BASED ON DUTY CYCLE - A dynamic gearshifting system includes a monitoring device configured to monitor a duty cycle of a clock output signal of a crystal oscillator circuit during oscillation buildup upon power-up of the crystal oscillator circuit. The dynamic gearshifting system also includes a detecting device configured to detect whether the duty cycle of the clock output signal of the crystal oscillator circuit meets a duty cycle threshold value. The dynamic gearshifting system may further include an assertion device configured to assert a control signal based on detecting the duty cycle meets the duty cycle threshold value. The asserted control signal configured to dynamically adjust a transconductance of the crystal oscillator circuit. | 03-10-2016 |
20160087583 | Oscillator, Electronic Apparatus, and Moving Object - An oscillator includes a circuit board including a supporting substrate (base member), a first VCXO (a first oscillator circuit), a second VCXO (a second oscillator circuit), and a ground terminal (terminal for ground). The first VCXO and the second VCXO are configured such that a second output frequency that is output from the second VCXO is higher than a first output frequency that is output from the first VCXO. The second VCXO is placed closer to the ground terminal than the first VCXO. | 03-24-2016 |
20160164461 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATION DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A wiring pattern for oscillation input signal and a wiring pattern for oscillation output signal are provided on a printed circuit board, and a wiring pattern for ground power source voltage is arranged in a region therebetween. A quartz crystal unit is connected between the wiring pattern for oscillation input signal and the wiring pattern for oscillation output signal and one ends of capacitors serving as load capacitors thereof are connected to the wiring pattern for ground power source voltage. Further, a wiring pattern for VSS is arranged so as to enclose these wiring patterns, and a wiring pattern for VSS is arranged also in a lower layer in addition thereto. By this means, reduction of a parasitic capacitance between an XIN node and an XOUT node, improvement in noise tolerance of these nodes and others can be achieved. | 06-09-2016 |
20090212877 | MEMS OSCILLATOR - Provided is a MEMS oscillation circuit which performs temperature compensation of a MEMS resonator with a simple circuit, which is mild so that an output clock does not have jitter, and which makes the range of fluctuations of a reference frequency from a reference value equivalent to a range of digital processing. The MEMS oscillator includes a MEMS resonator, a temperature measurement unit for measuring a temperature and outputting a detected voltage corresponding to the temperature, and a bias voltage control circuit for applying the MEMS resonator with a bias voltage which changes the resonant frequency of the MEMS resonator in a manner opposite to a change of the resonant frequency of the MEMS resonator due to temperature change correspondingly to the detected voltage. | 08-27-2009 |
20090243737 | MEMS oscillator - A discharge electrode is provided on the opposite side of a fixed electrode with a beam portion being sandwiched therebetween. When the frequency of the MEMS oscillator is regulated by increasing the mass of a vibration element, the vibration element is used as a positive electrode and the discharge electrode as a negative electrode, and a direct current voltage is applied until an arc discharge occurs. When an arc discharge occurs between the vibration element and discharge electrode, an inert gas is ionized to become positive ions to collide against the discharge electrode to sputter or evaporate the material of the discharge electrode. A portion of discharged material from the discharge electrode adheres to the vibration element, therefore, the mass of the vibration element is increased to reduce a resonance frequency of the MEMS oscillator. | 10-01-2009 |
20100134194 | SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE DRIVING CIRCUIT AND OSCILLATOR THEREFOR - A driving circuit of a surface wave resonator (X | 06-03-2010 |
20140312984 | OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT - An oscillator circuit includes a first resonator, a second resonator, and a frequency adjusting unit. The second resonator has a frequency characteristic different from a frequency characteristic of the first resonator. The frequency adjusting unit is configured to change a ratio between a contribution of the first resonator and a contribution of the second resonator so as to adjust an output frequency. | 10-23-2014 |
20080252390 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT - A crystal oscillator circuit includes a capacitive load stage (C | 10-16-2008 |
20080284533 | ELECTRICAL OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT AND AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An electrical oscillator circuit comprising: a resonator comprised in the first subcircuit; and an active device comprised in the second subcircuit connected to energize the resonator to provide an oscillating electrical signal transmitted as a differential signal via electrical conductors to the second subcircuit. The oscillator is characterized in that the second subcircuit comprises means for receiving the differential signal transmitted via the electrical conductors and converting the differential signal to a single-ended signal with reference to the signal ground reference of the second subcircuit. Thereby a noise robust oscillator signal is provided with the use of very few components. Particularly suitable for oscillators embodied in an integrated circuit with the resonator mounted on a printed circuit board, PCB. And an integrated circuit. | 11-20-2008 |
20090058546 | OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT - An oscillator circuit includes a first terminal, a second terminal, a resonator that is connected to the first terminal and the second terminal, a first capacitor that is connected to the first terminal and a ground line supplying the ground electric potential, a second capacitor that is connected to the second terminal and the ground line, m inverters, where m is an odd number equal to or larger than three, which are connected in series between the first terminal and the second terminal, and a third capacitor that is connected to an input terminal of the n-th (where n is an integer satisfying 1≦n03-05-2009 | |
20090096541 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT HAVING FAST START-UP AND METHOD THEREFOR - In one embodiment, a method of programming an oscillator circuit includes providing a resonator, a first programmable capacitor, a second programmable capacitor, and an amplifier. The first programmable capacitor and the second programmable capacitor may be programmed at a first capacitance value during a first time period, wherein the first programmable capacitor provides a first voltage to bias the resonator and the amplifier alters the second voltage to provide a third voltage to the resonator. During a second time period the first capacitance value is increased. | 04-16-2009 |
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20100026402 | Low phase noise differential crystal oscillator circuit - A differential crystal oscillator circuit uses a bias transistor to generate a bias voltage from a bias current. The bias voltage is supplied to the control terminals of a differential pair of transistors. The differential transistors operate to produce a differential output between corresponding end terminals thereof, which is provided to a reference crystal oscillator to establish an oscillation frequency at the differential output. | 02-04-2010 |
20100134193 | OSCILLATION CIRCUIT - An oscillation circuit according to the present invention comprises a solid-state oscillator, an amplifier for feedback-controlling the solid-state oscillator, and ESD protecting circuits respectively connected to the input and output sides of the amplifier, wherein the ESD protecting circuit on the input side of the amplifier comprises an ESD protecting element whose constituent is a diode having a P-type diffusion layer and an N-type diffusion layer, and the ESD protecting circuit on the output side of the amplifier comprises an ESD protecting element whose constituent is an MOS transistor. | 06-03-2010 |
20100148880 | Method and System for Forming Resonators Over CMOS - In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a semiconductor substrate includes complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) circuitry disposed outwardly from the semiconductor substrate. An electrode is disposed outwardly from the CMOS circuitry. The electrode is electrically coupled to the CMOS circuitry. A resonator is disposed outwardly from the electrode. The resonator is operable to oscillate at a resonance frequency in response to an electrostatic field propagated, at least in part, by the electrode. | 06-17-2010 |
20100182094 | CONSTANT CURRENT DRIVEN OSCILLATING CIRCUIT - There is provided a constant current driven oscillating circuit including: an oscillator with first and second ends; a first field effect transistor that turns ON when a signal of a lower level than a first threshold voltage is input to a first gate terminal, and outputs, from a second terminal, current that has been input from a first terminal; a second field effect transistor turning ON when a signal output from the oscillator and is at a higher level than a second threshold voltage is input to a second gate terminal connected to the second end of the oscillator, and outputs, from a fourth terminal, current that has been input from a third terminal connected to the second terminal and to the first end of the oscillator; and an adjusting section that adjusts the first threshold voltage according to the level of the signal output from the oscillator. | 07-22-2010 |
20100259335 | RESISTORLESS FEEDBACK BIASING FOR ULTRA LOW POWER CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR - An operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) is used as the DC bias feedback of a crystal oscillator to minimize temperature, voltage and process corner variations thereof, and thereby improve the reliability of crystal oscillator operation at ultra low power levels. | 10-14-2010 |
20100321123 | LOW POWER CONSUMING QUARTZ OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT WITH ACTIVE POLARISATION - The quartz oscillator circuit includes an inverter comprising two complementary PMOS and NMOS transistors (P | 12-23-2010 |
20110037525 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR - This invention discloses a crystal oscillator, in which by appropriately designing the gain of an amplifier to achieve high trans-conductance and low power consumption. This crystal oscillator includes a first pad, coupled to a first node of a crystal, for receiving a crystal oscillating signal outputted from the crystal; an amplifier, coupled to the first pad, for amplifying the crystal oscillating signal to generate an amplifying signal; an inverter, coupled to the amplifier, for inverting the amplifying signal; and a second pad, coupled to a second node of the crystal, for outputting an oscillating signal to the crystal. | 02-17-2011 |
20110090016 | OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT WITH A FAST TRANSIENT - An oscillator circuit for producing a frequency signal has a resonator element, an amplifier circuit and a coupling apparatus. The coupling apparatus connects the amplifier circuit to the resonator element for the duration of a switching-on process in the oscillator circuit. | 04-21-2011 |
20110121908 | Mems Resonator and Manufacturing Method of the Same - A resonator with a microeletromechanical system structure has a transistor with a gate electrode, a capacitor with an upper and lower electrode, a substrate, a first and second structure of the microelectromechanical system structure, a first silicon layer of the first structure and the upper electrode formed above the substrate, a second silicon layer of the second structure and the gate electrode unit formed above the substrate, and an insulating film formed above the capacitor and the transistor, the insulating film having an opening for placement of the second structure. | 05-26-2011 |
20110148533 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR WITH FAST START-UP AND LOW CURRENT CONSUMPTION - An oscillator comprises an inverter, with a resonator connected between an input and an output of the inverter. A transistor external to the inverter is connected in a current mirror mode with a transistor of the inverter so that the inverter's transistor copies the current of the external transistor. The external transistor has its drain terminal connected to the gate terminals of the inverter's transistor and of the external transistor. A current source is connected to the gate terminal of the inverter's transistor, and a switch is connected between the drain and gate terminals of the external transistor. Circuitry controls the switch so as to open the connection between the drain and gate terminals of the external transistor at the beginning of a start-up phase of the oscillator. | 06-23-2011 |
20120081187 | Oscillator - An oscillator outputs a sine wave with high purity capable of reducing phase noise. In a Colpitts oscillator circuit using a transistor as an amplifying part, a quartz-crystal resonator for waveform shaping is provided outside or inside an oscillation loop. A quartz-crystal resonator for oscillation and the quartz-crystal resonator for waveform shaping are formed, with an electrode pair and an electrode pair being provided on a common quartz-crystal piece. A separation distance between the electrode of the quartz-crystal resonator and the electrode of the quartz-crystal resonator is set large so that they are not elastically coupled, or even when they are elastically coupled, their coupling degree is weak, and an inductor causing parallel resonance with a parallel capacitance of the quartz-crystal resonator is provided. | 04-05-2012 |
20120092080 | OSCILLATOR - Provided is a temperature compensated oscillator includes an oscillation circuit for oscillating an oscillator. In the oscillator, when an oscillation frequency is changed by a second control signal after being controlled by a first control signal, variation in the oscillation frequency due to a second control signal is set to a fixed amount. The oscillation frequency of the oscillator is controlled on the basis of both the first control signal and the second control signal, but an oscillation amplitude adjusting section is also added, the oscillation amplitude adjusting section allowing the oscillation amplitude of the oscillator to be changed by the second control signal. The oscillator thus allows a fixed amount of oscillation frequency control over a wide range (full range) of oscillation frequency control due to the first control signal. | 04-19-2012 |
20120154066 | OSCILLATOR, AND CLOCK GENERATOR, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - An oscillator includes a reference voltage generator, an oscillation element configured to oscillate by either a drive voltage or a drive current and output an oscillation signal, a peak hold element configured to detect a peak level of the oscillation signal for output; and a controller configured to increase or decrease the drive voltage or drive current in accordance with the reference voltage generated by the reference voltage generator and the peak level output from the peak hold element. | 06-21-2012 |
20120161888 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT - An embodiment of a crystal oscillator circuit includes leakage-current compensation, transconductance enhancement, or both leakage-current compensation and transconductance enhancement. Such an oscillator circuit may draw a reduced operating current relative to a conventional oscillator circuit, and thus may be suitable for battery or other low-power applications. | 06-28-2012 |
20120161889 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATION DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A wiring pattern for oscillation input signal and a wiring pattern for oscillation output signal are provided on a printed circuit board, and a wiring pattern for ground power source voltage is arranged in a region therebetween. A quartz crystal unit is connected between the wiring pattern for oscillation input signal and the wiring pattern for oscillation output signal and one ends of capacitors serving as load capacitors thereof are connected to the wiring pattern for ground power source voltage. Further, a wiring pattern for VSS is arranged so as to enclose these wiring patterns, and a wiring pattern for VSS is arranged also in a lower layer in addition thereto. By this means, reduction of a parasitic capacitance between an XIN node and an XOUT node, improvement in noise tolerance of these nodes and others can be achieved. | 06-28-2012 |
20120200363 | PIEZOELECTRIC OSCILLATOR - Provided is a piezoelectric oscillator to attain high-frequency performance and frequency stabilization with the use of reflection characteristics of a reflective element. A piezoelectric oscillator is configured such that: a resonant circuit is connected to a gate of a field effect transistor; an output terminal is connected to a drain and a power supply voltage V is applied to the drain; a piezoelectric resonator is connected to a source, as a reflective element; and a resonance frequency of the resonant circuit and an oscillation frequency of the piezoelectric resonator as a reflective element are set to substantially the same frequency, and further, the piezoelectric oscillator may be configured such that a first matching circuit is provided between the resonant circuit and the gate, a second matching circuit is provided between the drain and the output terminal, and a third matching circuit is provided between the source and the reflective element. | 08-09-2012 |
20120212299 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING DESIGN VALUES FOR CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - According to the invention, two of three design values, i.e., the negative resistance RL, load capacitance CL and drive current Ios of a crystal oscillator circuit including a crystal resonator are determined to determine the remaining one design value from a relation equation or relation graph. As a result, reducing the CL of the crystal oscillator circuit allows the drive current Ios to be reduced, achieving reduced power consumption of the crystal oscillator circuit. | 08-23-2012 |
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20130300512 | CLOCK GENERATOR FOR CRYSTAL OR CERAMIC OSCILLATOR AND FILTER SYSTEM FOR SAME - A clock generator is disclosed for use with an oscillator device. The clock generator may include a signal conditioning pre-filter and a comparator. The signal conditioner may have an input for a signal from the oscillator device, and may include a high pass filter component and a low pass filter component. The high pass filter component may pass amplitude and frequency components of the input oscillator signal but reject a common mode component of the oscillator signal. Instead, the high pass filter component further may generate its own common mode component locally over which the high frequency components are superimposed. The low pass filter component may generate a second output signal that represents the locally-generated common mode component of the first output signal. The clock generator may have a comparator as an input stage which is coupled to first and second outputs of the filter structure. | 11-14-2013 |
20140022025 | HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT AND METHOD TO OPERATE SAME - A method includes providing an oscillator having a field effect transistor connected with a resonant circuit. The field effect transistor has a gate electrode coupled to a source of gate voltage, a source electrode, a drain electrode and a graphene channel disposed between the source electrode and the drain electrode and electrically connected thereto. The method further includes biasing the graphene channel via the gate electrode into a negative differential resistance region of operation to cause the oscillator to generate a frequency signal having a resonant frequency f0. There can be an additional step of varying the gate voltage so as to bias the graphene channel into the negative differential resistance region of operation and out of the negative differential resistance region of operation so as to turn on the frequency signal and to turn off the frequency signal, respectively. | 01-23-2014 |
20140062609 | XTAL oscillator - Resistor bias circuitry is included in components of an XTAL oscillator system to reduce 1/f noise. An XTAL oscillator includes a resistor bias circuit attached to the XTAL core. A common mode feedback OP amp connected to the XTAL core also includes a resistor bias circuit. An XTAL oscillator chain includes an XTAL core, common mode feedback OP amp, common mode logic buffer (CML BF), and differential to CMOS converter (D2C) each with resistor bias circuitry. | 03-06-2014 |
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20150116048 | OSCILLATION CIRCUIT, OSCILLATOR, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OSCILLATOR, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND MOVING OBJECT - An oscillation circuit includes: an oscillation unit which includes a first terminal and a second terminal connected to a vibrator; a third terminal to which a ground potential is supplied; a fourth terminal which is electrically connected to the second terminal, and to which at least one of an AC voltage for driving the vibrator and a voltage for operating the oscillation unit is applied; and a first switching unit which switches modes of electrical connection between the first terminal and the third terminal. | 04-30-2015 |
20160028349 | Differential Crystal Oscillator Circuit - A differential crystal oscillator circuit, including: first and second output terminals; a cross-coupled oscillation unit including first and second transistors cross-coupled to the first and second output terminals; first and second metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) diodes, each MOSFET diode including a resistor connected between gate and drain terminals, wherein the first MOSFET diode couples to the first transistor to provide low-impedance load at low frequencies and high-impedance load at higher frequencies to the first transistor, wherein the second MOSFET diode couples to the second transistor to provide low-impedance load at low frequencies and high-impedance load at higher frequencies to the second transistor; and a reference resonator coupled between the first and second output terminals to establish an oscillation frequency. | 01-28-2016 |
20160072497 | Low Phase Noise Technique for a Crystal Oscillator Circuit - In aspects of a low phase noise technique for use with a crystal oscillator, a bias control circuit sets a bias voltage on the gate of a first transistor needed to sink or source an amount of current corresponding to a sensed common mode signal. The sensed common mode signal is sensed with a common mode sense circuit that is coupled across two ports of the crystal oscillator, and current is provided by a current source. The bias voltage is set by a bias controller that uses a second transistor coupled to the common mode sense circuit and the first transistor. | 03-10-2016 |
20160099682 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR - A crystal oscillator, including: a voltage stabilizing unit, a transconductance unit, a feedback resistor, a crystal resonator and at least two ground capacitors. The voltage stabilizing unit includes a current source and a first branch circuit including PMOS and NMOS connected in series, PMOS has its source connected to output of the current source, PMOS and NMOS have their gates connected to drains thereof, and NMOS has its source connected to ground. The transconductance unit includes a second branch circuit including PMOS and NMOS connected in series, PMOS has its source connected to output of the voltage stabilizing unit, PMOS and NMOS have their gates connected to input of the crystal resonator and one end of the resistor, and have their drains connected to output of the crystal resonator and another end of the resistor. The capacitors are connected to two ends of the crystal resonator respectively and ground. | 04-07-2016 |
20160105147 | CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR START-UP CIRCUIT - A crystal oscillator start-up circuit capable of reducing a start-up time of a crystal oscillator is disclosed. The crystal oscillator start-up circuit is provided with a crystal oscillation unit including a crystal oscillator, a converter and an external oscillator. The crystal oscillation unit generates an output signal corresponding to the impedance characteristic of the crystal oscillator. The converter converts the output signal of the crystal oscillation unit to a voltage signal. The external oscillator outputs to the crystal oscillation unit an oscillation signal whose frequency is adjusted by the voltage signal to approach a resonance frequency of the crystal oscillator. | 04-14-2016 |
20160164462 | SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS, OSCILLATION CIRCUIT, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM - A semiconductor apparatus includes: first and second external terminals that are connected to respective both ends of an piezoelectric vibrator, in which the piezoelectric vibrator is externally disposed; an inverting amplifier that is disposed between the first and second external terminals; a feedback resistance that feeds back an output of the inverting amplifier to an input of the inverting amplifier; a first capacitative element that is disposed between the first external terminal and a reference voltage terminal; a first resistive element that is disposed in series with the first capacitative element; a second capacitative element that is disposed between the second external terminal and the reference voltage terminal; and a second resistive element that is disposed in series with the second capacitative element. | 06-09-2016 |
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