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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:
Oct. 09, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2005
Applicants:
James P. Maligeorgos, Austin, TX (US);
Donald A. Kerth, Austin, TX (US);
Augusto M. Marques, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
James P. Maligeorgos, Austin, TX (US);
Donald A. Kerth, Austin, TX (US);
Augusto M. Marques, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Silicon Laboratories Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03B 5/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a capacitor array that may provide a selected capacitance to a digitally controlled crystal oscillator (DCXO). The array may include multiple sections each having at least one array portion, where each section is to receive different significant portions of a digital control value. The different sections may have different coding schemes. Other embodiments are described and claimed.