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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2010
Jacob K. Easter, Thornton, CO (US);
William Thales Roberts, Highland, UT (US);
Shayan Farahvash, Cupertino, CA (US);
David Conrad Stegmeir, San Jose, CA (US);
LI Jin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jacob K. Easter, Thornton, CO (US);
William Thales Roberts, Highland, UT (US);
Shayan Farahvash, Cupertino, CA (US);
David Conrad Stegmeir, San Jose, CA (US);
Li Jin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Qorvo US, Inc., Greensboro, NC (US);
Abstract
The described devices, systems and methods include a voltage controlled oscillator. The voltage controlled oscillator includes a fine-tuning varactor network, a switch capacitor array having a first plurality of binary capacitor array elements and a second plurality of thermometer code capacitor array elements, and a tank inductor network including a first inductor in parallel with a second inductor.