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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2021
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 7/68 (2006.01); H03K 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 5/00006 (2013.01); G06F 7/68 (2013.01); H03K 5/02 (2013.01); H03K 2005/00286 (2013.01);
Abstract
A digital clock multiplier (DCM) circuit including: a plurality of power amplifier (PA) rows, wherein each PA row comprises a plurality of cascade switched capacitor power amplifiers (SCPA) unit cells configured to: receive a phase shift of a driving clock phase; and one or more processors configured to: disable of one or more of the plurality of cascade SCPA unit cells based on a frequency of the phase shift; generate an output signal for each of the cascade SCPA unit cells; and combine the output signal for each of the cascade SCPA unit cells to generate an PA row output signal.