Low noise quadrature signal generation

• Main Authors: Upadhyaya, Parag, Ma, Shaojun, Shin, Jaewook
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 31.08.2021
• Subjects: AMPLIFIERS; AUTOMATIC CONTROL, STARTING, SYNCHRONISATION, OR STABILISATIONOF GENERATORS OF ELECTRONIC OSCILLATIONS OR PULSES; BASIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; GENERATION OF NOISE BY SUCH CIRCUITS; GENERATION OF OSCILLATIONS, DIRECTLY OR BY FREQUENCY-CHANGING,BY CIRCUITS EMPLOYING ACTIVE ELEMENTS WHICH OPERATE IN ANON-SWITCHING MANNER; PHYSICS; PULSE TECHNIQUE; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

A quadrature clock generator is disclosed. The quadrature clock generator may include a first injection-locked oscillator, a phase interpolator, and a second injection-locked oscillator. The first injection-locked oscillator may generate a first plurality clock signals from a first reference clock signal. The phase interpolator may generate a second reference clock signal from the first plurality of clock signals, and the second injection-locked oscillator may generate a second plurality of clock signals from the second reference clock signal. A first quadrature clock signal may be selected from the first plurality of clock signals and a second quadrature clock signal may be selected from the second plurality of reference clock signals.