Abstract: A method includes providing a first voltage to a first output node during a first time interval, providing a second voltage to the first output node during a second time interval, and averaging the first and second voltages to provide a reference voltage to a second output node. The first voltage includes a proportional-to-absolute-temperature (PTAT) component, a complementary-to-absolute-temperature (CTAT) component, and a first residual offset component. The second voltage includes the PTAT component, the CTAT component, and a second residual offset component. An apparatus includes a discrete-time circuit to provide the first voltage to the first output node during the first time interval and to provide the second voltage to the first output node during the second time interval, and a filter to average the first and second voltages to provide the reference voltage to the second output node.

Abstract: An Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) device includes an input interface and conversion circuitry. The input interface is configured to receive an analog input signal. The conversion circuitry is configured to convert the analog input signal into a digital word by performing a sequence of iterations to determine respective bits of the digital word, wherein the sequence (i) progresses in descending order of bit significance of the bits, from a Most Significant Bit (MSB) to a Least Significant Bit (LSB), and (ii) repeats evaluation of a predefined number of Least-Significant Bits (LSBs) of the digital word multiple times, and determining a final value of the digital word by averaging the repeatedly-evaluated LSBs.

Abstract: A method includes providing a first voltage to a first output node during a first time interval, providing a second voltage to the first output node during a second time interval, and averaging the first and second voltages to provide a reference voltage to a second output node. The first voltage includes a proportional-to-absolute-temperature (PTAT) component, a complementary-to-absolute-temperature (CTAT) component, and a first residual offset component. The second voltage includes the PTAT component, the CTAT component, and a second residual offset component. An apparatus includes a discrete-time circuit to provide the first voltage to the first output node during the first time interval and to provide the second voltage to the first output node during the second time interval, and a filter to average the first and second voltages to provide the reference voltage to the second output node.

Abstract: In aspects of a low phase noise technique for use with a crystal oscillator, a bias control circuit sets a bias voltage on the gate of a first transistor needed to sink or source an amount of current corresponding to a sensed common mode signal. The sensed common mode signal is sensed with a common mode sense circuit that is coupled across two ports of the crystal oscillator, and current is provided by a current source. The bias voltage is set by a bias controller that uses a second transistor coupled to the common mode sense circuit and the first transistor.

Abstract: In aspects of a low phase noise technique for use with a crystal oscillator, a bias control circuit sets a bias voltage on the gate of a first transistor needed to sink or source an amount of current corresponding to a sensed common mode signal. The sensed common mode signal is sensed with a common mode sense circuit that is coupled across two ports of the crystal oscillator, and current is provided by a current source. The bias voltage is set by a bias controller that uses a second transistor coupled to the common mode sense circuit and the first transistor.