Oscillators – Ring oscillators
Reexamination Certificate
2005-11-08
2005-11-08
Callahan, Timothy P. (Department: 2816)
Oscillators
Ring oscillators
C331S17700V, C331S179000, C327S291000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06963250
ABSTRACT:
A VCO is configured using a ring oscillator with voltage controlled feedforward inverting stages coupled around the inverting stages making up the basic ring oscillator to enable the frequency of the ring oscillator to be voltage controlled. A latch and multiplexer is used to select between two or more outputs within the ring oscillator to change the basic frequency range of the VCO glitch free. To achieve a wide range VCO, additional stages are added to the basic ring oscillator. When the number of stages is an odd number greater than seven, then the voltage controlled feedforward inverting stages feedback to the outputs of the first and second inverting stages of the ring oscillator. Two additional multiplexers are added to select which feedforward inverting stage is coupled to the first and second inverting stage. This allows a wide range interleaved VCO that switches between frequency ranges glitch free.
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Carpenter Gary D.
Ngo Hung C.
Callahan Timothy P.
Frankeny Richard F.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Nguyen Hai L.
Salys Casimer K.
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