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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2004

Filed:

Jun. 24, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:

Jackie K. Cheng, Irvine, CA (US);

Assignee:

Skyworks,Solutions, Inc., Newport Beach, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/00 ;
Abstract

Techniques are provided for compensating for variations in capacitance of capacitors used in resonant circuits, particularly varactors used in voltage-controlled oscillators. Indications of actual varactor capacitances are used to determine which of several inductances to use in the resonant circuit with the varactor. The inductances may be composed of a bondwire inductance, and may also be composed of one or more coil inductors. Based on the determined capacitance indication, a bondwire is connected from a common bondpad to a selected bondpad to complete the resonant tank circuit such that an LC product of the tank circuit is within a desired or acceptable LC product range.


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