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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 01, 1999
Ravindra U. Shenoy, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for a supply-independent VCO biasing scheme for generating bias voltages and currents for a VCO of a phase-locked loop are disclosed A biasing scheme for generating a bias electrical signal comprises a first and second current source coupled to a power supply, a current drain coupled to the second current source and to ground, a replica device having a first node, a second node coupled to the second current source and the current drain, and a third node coupled to ground, and a first and second current splitting device having first nodes coupled to each other and to the current source and having third nodes coupled to the first and second nodes of the replica device, respectively.