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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019

Filed:

Aug. 29, 2017
Applicant:

Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);

Inventors:

Bichoy Bahr, Richardson, TX (US);

Baher Haroun, Allen, TX (US);

Ali Kiaei, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/24 (2006.01); H03K 3/03 (2006.01); H03H 9/54 (2006.01); H03K 3/013 (2006.01); H03H 9/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/24 (2013.01); H03H 9/54 (2013.01); H03K 3/013 (2013.01); H03K 3/0315 (2013.01); H03H 9/589 (2013.01);
Abstract

For producing a low-power, low-phase noise oscillating signal using a self-injection locking oscillator, examples include: producing, using an oscillator, a signal having a base frequency component, an Mth harmonic component and a Pth harmonic component, in which M and P are selected integers and M>P>1; filtering the signal through one or more bandpass filters including at least two resonators, the filters having Q factor ≥5, the filters configured to pass the Mth and Pth harmonic components; multiplying the filtered Mth and Pth harmonic components together to produce a multiplied signal, and filtering the multiplied signal using a low pass filter to pass a difference between the filtered Mth and Pth harmonic components, the difference including a filtered beat frequency waveform; and injecting the filtered beat frequency waveform into the oscillator to injection lock the signal to the filtered beat frequency waveform.


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