Patents Represented by Attorney George M. Anderson & Adamson Steres
  • Patent number: 5821827
    Abstract: An oscillator circuit having a flip chip metalization pattern and base substrate metalization pattern is defined such that a common-drain oscillator is configured with the common drain interposed between the source and gate terminals, providing an effective RF common reference with reduced parasitic inductance elements which otherwise degrade oscillator power and phase noise at high frequencies. Multiple sets of such patterns on the substrate and such three-terminal devices on the flip chip are arranged such that conductor patterns on the substrate connecting separately from the gates and the sources of the multiple devices to the common-drain reference are easily configured into separable tuning (or resonator) and feedback circuits. A common-drain oscillator having an interdigitated capacitor coplanar cavity resonator circuit as the gate input circuit having reduced distributed inductance is realized utilizing the interposed common-drain connections provided thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Endgate Corporation
    Inventors: Clifford A. Mohwinkel, Edward B. Stoneham