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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 28, 2012
Applicants:

Arun Paidimarri, Cambridge, MA (US);

Danielle Griffith, Richardson, TX (US);

Alice Wang, Allen, TX (US);

Inventors:

Arun Paidimarri, Cambridge, MA (US);

Danielle Griffith, Richardson, TX (US);

Alice Wang, Allen, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03B 5/20 (2006.01); H03B 5/32 (2006.01); H03B 1/00 (2006.01); H03B 5/24 (2006.01); H03L 7/08 (2006.01); H03B 5/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03B 5/24 (2013.01); H03B 1/00 (2013.01); H03B 5/20 (2013.01); H03B 5/26 (2013.01); H03B 5/32 (2013.01); H03L 7/0802 (2013.01); H03B 2200/0082 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods of low power clocking of sleep mode radios are disclosed herein. In an example embodiment, a crystal oscillator is purposefully mistuned to achieve lower power consumption, and then synchronized using a high frequency crystal oscillator. In an alternative embodiment, the input offset voltages of the comparator in an RC oscillator are cancelled, which allows low power operation and high accuracy performance when tuned to the high frequency crystal. A lower power comparator may be used with higher input offset voltages but still achieve higher accuracy. The RC circuit is switched back and forth on opposite phases of the output, cancelling the offset voltage on the inputs of the comparator.


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