<@U016PTY0C2E>: We do not have a crystal oscillat...
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@User: We do not have a crystal oscillator or RC oscillator design, so any input clock will have to be provided by an external CMOS (or similar) clock generator. I have a "quick hack" digital frequency-locked loop design that is probably good for digital that is not too sensitive to phase noise. We do not have a true PLL design with a steady VCO, so if you do anything that is cycle-to-cycle phase noise sensitive, it will have to be piped in from outside, which means probably < 20MHz if you want a reliable full swing rail-to-rail signal. We will of course be very happy to see anyone submitting a design for a crystal oscillator, RC oscillator, VCO, PLL, or high-speed I/O drivers.
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I started to sketch crystal oscillator designs. Irritatingly what I thought were obvious approaches have active patents. I presume we want to aim for things without IP encumberments?
@Tim 'mithro' Ansell I found a nice temperature -stabilized RC oscillator design done in 130nm process with the same capabilities as Sky130. http://www.eecs.umich.edu/wics/publications/Huang_TCAS22014.pdf . After some digging I found it was patented: 9,681,389 . Should I be filtering these out of my suggestions for your inspirations document?