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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2017
Applicant:
Nxp B.v.;
Inventor:
Nenad Pavlovic, Eindhoven, NL;
Assignee:
NXP B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/08 (2006.01); G01S 7/35 (2006.01); H03L 7/099 (2006.01); H03K 3/0231 (2006.01); G01S 13/34 (2006.01); H03L 7/197 (2006.01); G01S 7/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/0854 (2013.01); G01S 7/032 (2013.01); G01S 7/35 (2013.01); G01S 13/343 (2013.01); H03K 3/0231 (2013.01); H03L 7/099 (2013.01); H03L 7/0991 (2013.01); H03L 7/197 (2013.01); H03L 2207/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
A digitally controlled oscillator comprising a filtering digital to analogue converter, DAC, component and a voltage controlled oscillator, VCO, component comprising at least one control terminal arranged to receive a control voltage output by the DAC component; wherein the DAC component comprises a voltage generation component arranged to generate the control voltage and at least one configurable capacitive load component to which the control voltage is applied such that a filtering bandwidth of the DAC component is configurable by way of the at least one configurable capacitive load component.