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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2026
Filed:
May. 07, 2024
Silicon Laboratories Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Silicon Laboratories Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A technique for reducing the effects of charge injection when a charge pump in a fractional-N frequency synthesizer switches from an error cancellation phase of error current generation to a full-scale phase of error current generation uses a dummy digital-to-analog converter to steer excess current from the error cancellation phase to a voltage regulated node. As a result, the voltage swing of an inactive branch of a digital-to-analog converter of the charge pump is the same as the voltage swing of the active branch of the charge pump, i.e., the device overlap capacitance charge injection is in phase for the branches of a digital-to-analog converter in the charge pump.