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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2000
Filed:
May. 18, 1998
Hiroshi Kanno, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A voltage-controlled oscillator has a feedback circuit connected to the gate of a transistor which controls a current flowing through an oscillation unit. The feedback circuit applies a voltage depending on the DC voltage of an oscillated signal to the gate of the transistor. When the oscillated signal is reduced in level to lower the DC voltage, the feedback circuit lowers the voltage applied to the gate of the transistor. The current flowing through the oscillation unit is reduced to increase the level of the oscillated signal. When the oscillated signal is increased to increase the DC voltage, the feedback circuit increases the voltage applied to the gate of the transistor. The current flowing through the oscillation unit is increased to reduce the level of the oscillated signal. The feedback process prevents the voltage-controlled oscillator from operating unstably regardless of manufacturing variations of transistors from design values.