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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2001
Vishnu Balan, San Jose, CA (US);
Tzu-Wang Pan, San Jose, CA (US);
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A circuit controls an oscillation amplitude of a crystal oscillator including a crystal resonator, a current source supplying a bias current, and an output transistor coupled to the crystal resonator and the current source. The circuit includes a peak detector for detecting a peak voltage of an output signal of the crystal oscillator, and a controller coupled to the peak detector and to the current source for controlling the current source in accordance with a difference between the peak voltage and a target voltage, the target voltage being set to be substantially equal to 2V , where V is a threshold voltage of the output transistor. A frequency control circuit controls a first switched-capacitor array and a second switched-capacitor array coupled to the crystal resonator, and alternately switches a unit capacitor in the first switched-capacitor array and a unit capacitor in the second switched-capacitor array based on a frequency control signal.