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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2003
Xin Guo, Mountain View, CA (US);
Xin Guo, Mountain View, CA (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A charge pump oscillator circuit with compensation for variations in process and operating environment. The charge pump oscillator is designed with a rolloff characteristic that enables operation at both weak and strong process corners without excessive power consumption. Composite resistors in the oscillator circuit are composed of component resistors that are fabricated with different processes, e.g., implant and deposition. The resistance of the composite resistor is thus in order to provide compensation for variations in processing and operating environment. The composite resistor may be used as a feedback loop resistor, or may be used as a source degenerate resistor to control the supply current to the oscillator.