Patent classifications
H03B2200/0068
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME
Increases of circuit scale and power consumption are suppressed while frequency deviation is kept within a predetermined allowable range. A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a variable load capacity circuit including a plurality of load capacity elements coupled in parallel to one end of a crystal resonator and a plurality of switches that are respectively serially coupled to the load capacity elements, and a switch control unit that controls ON/OFF of the switches on the basis of information to be an index of frequency deviation due to temperature change of a frequency signal obtained by oscillating the crystal resonator. The switch control unit changes the number of switches that will be turned ON among the plurality of switches so that an absolute value of the frequency deviation becomes small when the information is not included in a predetermined allowable range.
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CALIBRATING FREQUENCY OF OSCILLATOR IN RESPONSE TO EXTERNAL SIGNAL
A frequency calibrator includes an input signal generator configured to generate an input signal based on an oscillation signal and an external signal; a frequency difference extractor configured to extract, from the input signal, a frequency difference signal having a frequency corresponding to a frequency difference between an external frequency of the external signal and an oscillation frequency of the oscillation signal; a divider configured to generate a division signal by dividing a signal having the oscillation frequency by a division ratio; and a frequency tuner configured to tune the oscillation frequency of the oscillation signal based on a result of comparing the frequency difference signal to the division signal.