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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard Chou, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Pidugu L. Narayana, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Paul H. Scott, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cypress Semiconductor Corp., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/00 ;
Abstract
An apparatus comprising an oscillator circuit and a logic circuit. The oscillator circuit may be configured to present an output signal having a frequency in response to (i) a reference signal, (ii) a control signal and (iii) the output signal. The logic circuit may be configured to present the control signal in response to (i) the output signal and (ii) the reference signal. In one example, the logic circuit may disable the oscillator when the output signal oscillates outside a predetermined range.