Stmicroelectronics S.r.l.

Simone Erba

Massimo Pozzoni

Enrico Monaco

Giampiero Montagna

Giovanni Steffan

Emanuele Depaoli

Gabriele Anzalone

Mario Valla

A frequency doubling device suitable to generate an output terminal voltage oscillating at a differential frequency double the frequency of the input differential voltage, includes a first differential pair of P-type transistors and a second differential pair of N-type transistors controlled by the differential input voltage, as well as an LC oscillator including a LC resonant dipole through which the absorbed current is forced by two differential pairs of transistors.

Frequency doubler and related method of generating an oscillating voltage

A ring oscillator includes a first delay stage generating a first phase signal and a second delay stage generating a second phase signal. Each of the first and second delay stages includes variable resistance circuit. A phase comparator circuit performs a phase comparison between the first and second phase signals to generate a phase error signal. An amplifier circuit generates a control signal from the phase error signal. A feedback loop applies the control signal to control the resistance of the variable resistance circuits in the first and second delay stages.

Injection locked ring oscillator circuit with an analog quadrature calibration loop

A decision feedback equalizer includes a correction circuit to correct a sampled value of an incoming bit based on intersymbol interference of at least one preceding bit, and to generate a received bit. The correction circuit includes a first multiplexer and a first pair of latches coupled thereto. The first multiplexer is controlled by a clock signal to generate a digital level representative of a sign of a first correction coefficient to be subtracted from the sampled value of the incoming bit for deleting the intersymbol interference. The first pair of latches receives as input the received bit and is clocked in phase opposition by the clock signal to generate respective latched replicas of the received bit during respective active phases of the clock signal. The respective latched replicas are input to the first multiplexer.

Decision feedback equalization scheme with minimum correction delay

An analog multiplier for multiplying a first analog voltage signal at a first frequency by a second analog voltage signal at a second frequency, comprising a first stage for converting the first analog voltage signal into a first and a second current signals, and a second stage comprising a first and a second cross-coupled current-switching pairs, driven by the second voltage signal, the first and second current-switching pairs having respective current inputs for receiving the first and the second current signals, respectively. Parasitic capacitances are inherently associated with each current input of the current-switching pairs. A compensation circuit is coupled to the current inputs of the current-switching pairs for compensating the parasitic capacitances.

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