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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:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
May. 31, 2013
Applicants:
Gilles J. Muller, Austin, TX (US);
Jeffrey C. Cunningham, Austin, TX (US);
Karthik Ramanan, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Gilles J. Muller, Austin, TX (US);
Jeffrey C. Cunningham, Austin, TX (US);
Karthik Ramanan, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03B 5/06 (2006.01); H03K 3/0231 (2006.01); H03L 1/02 (2006.01); H03L 5/00 (2006.01); H03L 7/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/06 (2013.01); H03L 5/00 (2013.01); H03K 3/0231 (2013.01); H03B 2200/0094 (2013.01); H03L 1/02 (2013.01); H03B 5/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
An oscillator that includes a first source current leg and first sink current leg to source current and sink current, respectively, during a startup mode of oscillator operation. The oscillator includes a second source current leg and a second sink current leg to source current and sink current, respectively, during a second mode of oscillator operation.