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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 1985
Filed:
Mar. 11, 1983
Paul E Fleischer, Little Silver, NJ (US);
Apparajan Ganesan, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Kenneth R Laker, Staten Island, NY (US);
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A switched capacitor oscillator is constructed by providing a damped resonator network with a comparator as a nonlinear feedback element by connecting the input of the comparator to the output of a first operational amplifier of the resonator network and connecting the output of the comparator to the input of the resonator network. The comparator thus becomes a saturable positive feedback element for the resonator network. Also disclosed is a startup network for the oscillator and an input network which derives an input from a reference voltage in order to eliminate supply voltage noise and provide precision control of amplitude.