Patent ID: 8138844

Claim:
A wireless communication element, comprising: at least one of: a receive path configured to receive a first wireless communication signal and convert the first wireless communication signal into a first digital signal based at least on an oscillator signal; and a transmit path configured to convert a second digital signal into a second wireless communication signal based at least on the oscillator signal and transmit the second wireless communication signal; and an oscillator configured to output the oscillator signal to at least one of the receive path and the transmit path, the oscillator comprising: a crystal resonator; an inverter coupled in parallel with the crystal resonator; a first switched capacitor coupled to a first terminal of the crystal resonator; a second switched capacitor coupled to a second terminal of the crystal resonator; a control module configured to output a periodic dithering signal, the periodic dithering signal having a first pulse width based on a desired frequency of oscillation for the oscillator; and a delay module configured to communicate a first periodic enable signal to enable the first switched capacitor and a second periodic enable signal to enable the second switched capacitor, such that: at least one of the first periodic enable signal and the second periodic enable signal have a second pulse width greater than the first pulse width; and the second periodic enable signal is phase delayed relative to the first periodic enable signal by a non-zero delay.