Seiko Epson Corporation

Mitsuaki Sawada

Fumikazu Komatsu

Shoichiro Kasahara

Takashi Nomiya

Naoki Il

Yuichi Toriumi

Yosuke Itasaka

Hisahiro Ito

Takemi Yonezawa

Hidehiko Yajima

Takuya Ishida

Tetsuya Otsuki

Yoshiyuki Kamihara

Masataka Nomura

Yasunari Furuya

Masaaki Abe

Hayato Terashi

A circuit device includes an oscillation circuit configured to generate an oscillation signal, a waveform shaping circuit configured to perform waveform shaping on the oscillation signal, and a regulator configured to supply a regulated power supply voltage to the waveform shaping circuit. The circuit device further includes an amplitude detection circuit configured to detect the amplitude of the oscillation signal and output an amplitude detection signal, and a power supply control circuit configured to perform control on the regulator based on the amplitude detection signal, such that the regulated power supply voltage becomes smaller than the amplitude of the oscillation signal.

Circuit device and oscillator

A circuit device includes an oscillation circuit configured to generate an oscillation signal and a temperature compensation circuit configured to perform temperature compensation for an oscillation frequency of the oscillation signal. The temperature compensation circuit includes a first reference current generation circuit configured to generate a first reference current, a second reference current generation circuit configured to generate a second reference current, a first compensation circuit configured to perform temperature compensation for the oscillation frequency in a first temperature range based on the first reference current, and a second compensation circuit configured to perform temperature compensation for the oscillation frequency in a second temperature range, which is higher than the first temperature range in temperature, based on the second reference current. The first reference current generation circuit reduces the first reference current as a temperature rises, or the second reference current generation circuit reduces the second reference current as the temperature drops.

Provided is a temperature sensor including a bipolar transistor, a resistor, and a variable resistance circuit. The resistor is provided between a first node coupled to a base node of the bipolar transistor and a collector node of the bipolar transistor. The variable resistance circuit is provided between an emitter node of the bipolar transistor and a ground node.

Temperature sensor, circuit device, oscillator, electronic apparatus, and vehicle

An oscillator circuit includes an oscillating circuit coupled to a vibrator, and a control circuit that controls the oscillating circuit. The oscillator circuit has a normal operation mode in which the oscillating circuit oscillates in a state where a negative resistance value is a first value, and a start mode in which the oscillator circuit shifts from a state where oscillation is stopped to the normal operation mode. In the start mode, the control circuit controls the negative resistance value to increase from a second value which is smaller than the first value.

Oscillator circuit, oscillator, and method for controlling oscillator circuit

The circuit device includes a current generation circuit and a current-voltage conversion circuit. The current generation circuit generates a temperature compensation current based on a temperature detection voltage from the temperature sensor and temperature compensation data. The current-voltage conversion circuit converts the temperature compensation current into the temperature compensation voltage. The current generation circuit performs a fine adjustment of the temperature compensation current based on lower bits of the temperature compensation data, and performs a coarse adjustment of the temperature compensation current based on higher bits of the temperature compensation data.

Circuit device, oscillator, electronic apparatus, and vehicle

An integrated circuit device includes a first pad and a second pad electrically coupled to one end and the other end of a resonator, an oscillation circuit that is electrically coupled to the first pad and the second pad and generates an oscillation signal by causing the resonator to oscillate, and an output circuit that outputs a clock signal based on the oscillation signal. The oscillation circuit is disposed along a first side of the integrated circuit device among the first side, a second side that intersects the first side, a third side that is an opposite side of the first side, and a fourth side that is an opposite side of the second side. The first pad and the second pad are disposed in the oscillation circuit along the first side in a plan view, and the output circuit is disposed along the second side.

Integrated circuit device, oscillator, electronic apparatus, and vehicle

An integrated circuit device includes an oscillation circuit that generates an oscillation signal by causing a resonator to oscillate, a temperature compensation circuit that performs temperature compensation of an oscillation frequency of the oscillation circuit, an output circuit that outputs a clock signal based on the oscillation signal, a first regulator that generates a first regulated power supply voltage based on a power supply voltage and supplies the first regulated power supply voltage to the temperature compensation circuit, and a second regulator that generates a second regulated power supply voltage based on the power supply voltage and supplies the second regulated power supply voltage to the output circuit.

A vibrator device has a base that has a first terminal, a circuit element that is disposed on the base and has a second terminal, a vibrator that includes a vibrator element and a vibrator element package, and is positioned between the first terminal and the second terminal in plan view of the base, a wiring unit that is disposed on the vibrator, a first wire that electrically connects the first terminal and the wiring unit together, and a second wire that electrically connects the wiring unit and the second terminal together.

Vibrator device, oscillator, electronic device, and vehicle

An output buffer circuit includes an output node, a P-type transistor, an N-type transistor, and a first variable resistor circuit provided in a signal path between a drain of one of the P-type transistor and the N-type transistor and the output node.

Output buffer circuit, oscillator, electronic apparatus, and vehicle

In order to configure an oscillation circuit, an oscillator, a fractional N-PLL circuit, and the like that can output a plurality of frequencies, while decreasing an influence of an integer value boundary spurious at one reference frequency, the oscillation circuit includes a circuit for oscillation that oscillates a resonator, a fractional N-PLL circuit to which a signal from the circuit for oscillation is input, and a non-volatile memory that stores a plurality of division ratios, which can be selected from outside, of the fractional N-PLL circuit. A fractional portion of at least two of the plurality of division ratios is equal to or higher than 0.05 and is equal to or lower than 0.95.

Oscillation circuit, oscillator, fractional N-PLL circuit, electronic apparatus, moving object, and determination method of reference frequency of fractional N-PLL circuit

An oscillation circuit includes a voltage controlled oscillation circuit that includes a variable capacitance circuit provided with a variable capacitance element whose capacitance value is controlled on the basis of a control voltage and oscillates a vibrator so as to generate an oscillation signal, and a fractional N-PLL circuit that receives the oscillation signal generated by the voltage controlled oscillation circuit and includes a voltage controlled oscillator which controls an oscillation frequency on the basis of control input data (an integral division ratio and a fractional division ratio).

Oscillation circuit, oscillator, electronic apparatus, moving object, and frequency adjustment method of oscillator

An integrated circuit device includes a high-speed I/F circuit block which transfers data through a serial bus, and a driver logic circuit block which generates a display control signal. A first-conductivity-type transistor included in the high-speed I/F circuit block is formed in a second-conductivity-type well, and a second-conductivity-type transistor included in the high-speed I/F circuit block is formed in a first-conductivity-type well formed in a second-conductivity-type substrate to enclose the second-conductivity-type well. A first-conductivity-type transistor and a second-conductivity-type transistor included in the driver logic circuit block are formed in a region other than a region of the first-conductivity-type well for the high-speed interface circuit block.

Integrated circuit device and electronic instrument

An integrated circuit device includes a common transceiver macrocell including a circuit necessary for host operation and a circuit necessary for device operation. The common transceiver macrocell includes an analog front-end circuit and a high-speed logic circuit. The high-speed logic circuit includes a parallel/serial conversion circuit, a first parallel interface which serves as an interface between an external circuit and the parallel/serial conversion circuit, a sampling clock generation circuit, a serial/parallel conversion circuit, and a second parallel interface which serves as an interface between the serial/parallel conversion circuit and the external circuit.

A host controller includes a disconnection detection circuitwhich compares a voltage level of a first differential signal DP of first and second differential signals DP and DM making up a differential signal pair corresponding to a given range in a frame packet with a comparison voltage CV, compares a voltage level of the second differential signal DM corresponding to a given range in the frame packet with the comparison voltage CV, and detects that a host and a device have been disconnected when the voltage level of at least one of the first and second differential signals DP and DM corresponding to the given range is higher than the comparison voltage CV.

Host controller including a disconnection detection circuit

A macrocell including a physical layer circuit includes a transmitter circuit and a receiver circuit connected with pads for differential signals DP and DM. The transmitter circuit includes a transmission driver which drives a signal line for the DP and a transmission driver which drives a signal line for the DM. When a direction from a side SDto a side SDof the macrocell is defined as a first direction, the transmission drivers are disposed on the side of the pads for the DP and DM in the first direction and are disposed line-symmetrically about a line SYL, and the receiver circuit is disposed on the side of the transmitter circuit in the first direction. A routing region of signal lines SLRand SLRfor connecting the receiver circuit with the pads for the DP and DM is provided in the region between the transmission drivers.

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Mitsuaki Sawada