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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2016
Applicant:
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Inventors:
Chao-Chieh Li, Hsinchu, TW;
Robert Bogdan Staszewski, Dublin, IE;
Assignee:
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03B 5/12 (2006.01); H03K 3/03 (2006.01); H03K 5/15 (2006.01); H03K 5/151 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03B 5/1265 (2013.01); H03B 5/1212 (2013.01); H03B 5/1228 (2013.01); H03B 5/1296 (2013.01); H03K 3/0315 (2013.01); H03K 5/15 (2013.01); H03K 5/1515 (2013.01);
Abstract
An oscillator includes an oscillator circuit and a voltage circuit. The oscillator circuit includes a first transistor. The voltage circuit is configured to, in a small signal mode, provide a voltage swing at a source of the first transistor, a gate-to-source voltage of the first transistor being associated with whether the oscillator is able to generate an oscillator signal.