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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2016
Applicant:
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Inventors:
Feng-Wei Kuo, Hsinchu County, TW;
Chewn-Pu Jou, Hsinchu, TW;
Huan-Neng Chen, Taichung, TW;
Kuang-Kai Yen, Kaohsiung, TW;
Lan-Chou Cho, Hsinchu, TW;
Robert Bogdan Staszewski, Delft, NL;
Tsung-Hsiung Lee, New Taipei, TW;
Assignee:
TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Hsinchu, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/085 (2006.01); H03L 7/099 (2006.01); H03L 7/18 (2006.01); H03L 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/0991 (2013.01); H03L 7/00 (2013.01); H03L 7/085 (2013.01); H03L 7/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
A circuit and a method are disclosed herein. The circuit includes a digitally controlled oscillator and a detector. The digitally controlled oscillator is configured to generate an oscillator signal according to an oscillator tuning word. The detector is configured to output one of a first control word and a second control word that is derived from the first control word as the oscillator tuning word.