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Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016

Filed:

Aug. 27, 2015
Applicant:

Marvell World Trade Ltd., St. Michael, BB;

Inventors:

Arvind Anumula Paramanandam, Pleasanton, CA (US);

Norman Liu, San Mateo, CA (US);

Prasanna Upadhyaya, San Jose, CA (US);

Xiaoyue Wang, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Marvell World Trade Ltd., St. Michael, BB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03B 5/36 (2006.01); H03K 17/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 17/161 (2013.01); H03B 5/362 (2013.01); H03B 5/364 (2013.01); H03B 2200/009 (2013.01);
Abstract

In aspects of a low phase noise technique for use with a crystal oscillator, a bias control circuit sets a bias voltage on the gate of a first transistor needed to sink or source an amount of current corresponding to a sensed common mode signal. The sensed common mode signal is sensed with a common mode sense circuit that is coupled across two ports of the crystal oscillator, and current is provided by a current source. The bias voltage is set by a bias controller that uses a second transistor coupled to the common mode sense circuit and the first transistor.


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