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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2012
Shawn Bawell, Amherst, NH (US);
Robert Broughton, Chester, NH (US);
Peter Bacon, Derry, NH (US);
Robert W. Greene, Lowell, MA (US);
Tero Tapio Ranta, San Diego, CA (US);
Shawn Bawell, Amherst, NH (US);
Robert Broughton, Chester, NH (US);
Peter Bacon, Derry, NH (US);
Robert W. Greene, Lowell, MA (US);
Tero Tapio Ranta, San Diego, CA (US);
Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure describes tuning capacitors with tapered and reconfigurable quality factors. Digitally tuned capacitors (DTCs) that provide a variable quality factor (Q) while maintaining a constant or near constant capacitance as well as DTCs that provide one or more Q values in a tapered distribution while maintaining a constant or near constant capacitance are described. The present disclosure also describes DTCs that provide one or more capacitances in a tapered distribution and one or more Q values in a tapered distribution.