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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2006
Tomomitsu Kitamura, Tokyo, JP;
Ken Suyama, Hawthorne, NY (US);
Aleksander Dec, Hawthorne, NY (US);
Renesas Technology Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Epoch Microelectronics, Inc., Hawthorne, NY (US);
Abstract
An oscillation circuit formed in a single semiconductor chip, wherein a first source voltage is supplied to a first power supply terminal, a second source voltage different from the first source voltage is supplied to a second power supply terminal, a voltage regulator receives the voltage from the first power supply terminal and outputs a source voltage, a voltage controlled oscillation circuit is supplied with a source voltage from the voltage regulator, a current source circuit is connected to the second power supply terminal, the voltage regulator, the voltage controlled oscillation circuit and the current source circuit are inserted in series between the first and second power supply terminals, and the current supplied to the voltage controlled oscillation circuit from the voltage regulator flows in the current source circuit.