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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2019
Applicant:
Silicon Motion Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Inventor:
Sheng-Yi Chen, Taipei, TW;
Assignee:
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/03 (2006.01); H03K 21/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/0315 (2013.01); H03K 21/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
An oscillator apparatus includes an oscillator circuit and a protection circuit. The oscillator circuit has an input and an output for generating a clock signal. The protection circuit is coupled to the input or the output of the oscillator circuit and is used for generating a second power switch control signal to the input of the oscillator circuit according to a signal edge of the clock signal and a first power switch control signal which is provided to the oscillator apparatus, to protect circuit element(s) included within the oscillator circuit.