Patent ID: 9734265
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: G06F,H03B,H03K

Claim:
1. A voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), comprising: a resonator circuit connected to receive an input voltage and having a first output node and a second output node; and at least one cross-coupled switching circuit portion, each cross-coupled switching circuit portion comprising a first transistor having a drain connected to the first output node and a second transistor having a drain connected to the second output node, the first transistor having a gate connected between the drain of the second transistor and the second output node and the second transistor having a gate connected between the drain of the first transistor and the first output node, each of the first and second transistors having a threshold voltage that is determined to be the highest threshold voltage available for the process used to create the VCO, wherein a magnitude of the threshold voltage for each of the first and second transistors is greater than or equal to one volt.