| US 7,595,700 B2 | ||
| LC quadrature oscillator having phase and amplitude mismatch compensator | ||
| Sangjin Byun, Daejeon (Korea, Republic of); Chang-Ho Lee, Marietta, Ga. (US); Haksun Kim, Daejeon (Korea, Republic of); and Joy Laskar, Marietta, Ga. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics, (Korea, Republic of); and Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta, Ga. (US) | ||
| Filed on Sep. 21, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/859,523. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2009/0079509 A1, Mar. 26, 2009 | ||
| Int. Cl. H03B 5/12 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 331—117R [331/45; 331/47; 331/177 V; 331/183] | 16 Claims |

| 1. An LC quadrature oscillator, comprising:
a first LC oscillator that generates at least one first clock signal;
a second LC oscillator that generates at least one second clock signal, wherein the at least one first and second clock signals
form I/Q clock signals; and
a mismatch compensator that compensates for phase and amplitude mismatches of the I/Q clock signals, wherein the mismatch
compensator includes:
an amplitude mismatch detector that detects a first amplitude associated with the at least one first clock signal and a second
amplitude associated with the at least one second clock signal,
a transconductor that receives the detected first and second amplitudes and generates a current signal that represents a difference
between the first and second amplitudes, and
a capacitor that converts the current signal received from the transconductor into a voltage signal, wherein the voltage signal
is provided to configure an operation of the second LC oscillator.
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