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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2018
Applicant:
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventors:
Hidenori Takeuchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Taiwa Okanobu, Tokyo, JP;
Naoya Arisaka, Tokyo, JP;
Hitoshi Tomiyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, Kanagawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03B 5/12 (2006.01); H03L 7/099 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03B 5/1265 (2013.01); H03L 7/0992 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is provided a semiconductor device including an oscillation circuit that includes a plurality of capacitors provided on a semiconductor substrate, a conversion circuit that converts an analog signal into a digital signal, and a switch circuit that switches the capacitors on the basis of the digital signal. Further, an oscillation frequency linearly varies with respect to a variation in the analog signal.