Calibration of up and down charge-pump currents using a...

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2006-04-25

2006-04-25

Ton, My-Trang Nu (Department: 2816)

Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and

Signal converting, shaping, or generating

Synchronizing

Reexamination Certificate

active

07034588

ABSTRACT:
A charge pump for a phase-locked loop (PLL) has accurate matching of charge and discharge currents applied to the PLL's loop filter. A variable current-sink transistor has its gate-to-source voltage adjusted to match a source current from a fixed current source. An intermediate node in-between series transistors between the current source and sink is sampled by a sampling transistor that connects the intermediate node to a sampling capacitor. The sampling capacitor's voltage is the gate-to-source voltage of the variable current-sink transistor. The variable current-sink transistor has its gate and drain coupled together through the sampling transistor during calibration periods when the charge pump is otherwise idle. When the source current exactly matches the sink current, the gate-to-source voltage stored on the sampling capacitor reaches steady state. Up and down currents are balanced in driver transistors that match the series transistors.

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