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US 2009/0153259 A1Published application
Digitally controlled oscillator (dco)
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsTae-wook KIM, Choong-yul CHA, Jae-sup LEE, Kang-yoon LEE
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Abstract
A digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) includes a current generator which generates an electric current having a magnitude corresponding to an input signal, and a digitally controlled oscillating unit which generates an oscillating frequency based on an inductance which varies according to the magnitude of the electric current generated by the current generator.
Claims10
A digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) comprising:
- a current generator which generates an electric current having a magnitude corresponding to an input signal;
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- a digitally controlled oscillating unit which generates an oscillating frequency based on an inductance which varies according to the magnitude of the electric current generated by the current generator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.