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        <title>Free Patents Online: Oscillators</title>
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        <description>USPTO Class 331 Oscillators</description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mode-switching low-noise amplifier and wide-band RF receiver]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8447259.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A mode-switching LNA generally includes an input unit, an output unit and a bias voltage generator. The input unit amplifies an input signal to generate an amplified signal. The output unit receives the amplified signal from the input unit and operates either in an oscillation mode or in an amplification mode in response to a control signal to generate an output signal having a center frequency equal to a target frequency. The control signal indicates whether the center frequency of the output signal is the same as the target frequency. The bias voltage generator provides an input bias voltage to the input unit in response to the control signal, where the input bias voltage includes a first bias voltage in the amplification mode and a second bias voltage in the oscillation mode.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Oscillator circuit]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8446228.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[An oscillator circuit comprises a push-push oscillator and a differential output, comprising a first and a second output circuit. The push-push oscillator has a first and a second branch. Each of the first and second branch comprises an own voltage divider branch of a common bridge circuit. Each of the first and second voltage divider branches comprises an own pair of micro-strip lines connected in series. Each of the first and second voltage divider branches has an own tap. Both taps are connected to each other by at least one of a first capacity and a micro-strip line. The differential output comprises a first and a second output terminal. The first output terminal is connected via the first output circuit to a first node. The second output terminal is connected via the second output circuit to a second node. Each of the first and second nodes of the push-push oscillator is a common node of both of the first and the second branches.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Methods and apparatus for tuning devices having mechanical resonators]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8446227.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Methods and apparatus for tuning devices having mechanical resonators are described. In one implementation, a mechanical resonator and a phase shifter are configured in a feedback loop, so that the phase shifter shifts the phase of the resonator output signal. The amount of phase shift induced by the phase shifter may be variable. In another implementation, an LC tuning subcircuit is coupled to a mechanical resonator. In some implementations, the LC tuning subcircuit has a variable capacitance. One or more of the apparatus described herein may be implemented as part, or all, of a microelectromechanical system (MEMS).]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Oven controlled crystal oscillator]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[An oven controlled crystal oscillator includes a thermostatic bath, an inner circuit board, an outer circuit board, a heating element, and a temperature sensor. The inner circuit board comprising a crystal oscillation circuit is positioned inside the thermostatic bath and electrically connected with the outer circuit board via a pin. The outer circuit board has a temperature control circuit and a power supply circuit. The heating element and the temperature sensor electrically connect with the outer circuit board. A through slot is formed through the outer circuit board, and the thermostatic bath is inserted into the through slot. By inserting the thermostatic bath into the through slot of the outer circuit board, the height and the weight of the oven controlled crystal oscillator are reduced, the electric connection performance is enhanced, and thus the stability of the output frequency of the oven controlled crystal oscillator is improved.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Surface mounted oven controlled crystal oscillator]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A surface mounted oven controlled crystal oscillator includes a crystal oscillator shell, a crystal oscillation circuit, several functional pins and a base plate. The crystal oscillation circuit is accommodated in a cavity that is formed by the crystal oscillator shell and the base plated and electrically connects with the functional pins. The functional pins drill through the base plate from the cavity. An insulating layer is formed between each functional pin and the base plate. The surface mounted oven controlled crystal oscillator further includes several pads formed at an outer surface of the base plate. The insulating layer is also formed between each pad and the base plate, and the functional pins are electrically connected with the corresponding pads respectively. Added pads, the oven controlled crystal oscillator has high stability, simple manufacturing process, and low manufacturing cost. Moreover, the oven controlled crystal oscillator is mounted on the product by using surface mounted technology, thereby achieving mechanized batch production with high efficiency.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Network of tightly coupled performance monitors for determining the maximum frequency of operation of a semiconductor IC]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A circuit interconnection structure for synchronizing a network of oscillators placed on a semiconductor substrate. One such structure comprises a first synchronizing circuit electrically coupled to a second synchronizing circuit through tunable delay circuits. Also disclosed are methods to tune oscillators placed in different regions of a circuit having multiple clock domains by estimating the relative slack of a first group of signals within the circuit with regard to the period of a first clock domain, and estimating the relative slack of the second group of signals within the circuit with regard to the period of second clock domain, wherein the estimating is performed at process and operational corners that cover the variability of the circuit at different speed conditions, then calculating tuning values for the oscillator delays for each region such that the oscillator delay slack matches the worst relative slack of the signals of the same region.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Systems and methods for calibrating real time clock]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8446223.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Systems and methods for calibrating real time clock are provided. A representative receiver includes a GPS device comprising a real time clock (RTC) circuitry that generates RTC clock signals and a temperature compensated crystal oscillator (TCXO) that generates TCXO clock signals. A ratio counter circuitry receives both the RTC clock signals and the TCXO clock signals and determines a frequency ratio by comparing the RTC clock signals and the TCXO clock signals. A computing device receives the frequency ratio and estimates a current RTC frequency based on the received frequency ratio. The computing device is configured to calibrate an estimated RTC time being maintained at the RTC circuitry based on an estimated RTC frequency from a prior estimation, the current RTC frequency and an elapsed time of the RTC circuitry.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Apparatus and methods for reducing noise in oscillating signals]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8446222.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Methods and apparatus are described for reducing noise, such as phase noise, in an oscillating signal. The oscillating signal may be generated by a signal generator having a mechanical resonator, such as a crystal oscillator. A filter may be coupled to the output of the mechanical resonator and may have its center frequency adjusted using a phase-locked loop (PLL). A feedback signal from the filter to the signal generator may also be used.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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