Download or read book Design Techniques for Frequency Synthesizers in Highly Scaled CMOS Technologies written by Shih-An Yu and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Then, a 2.5-GHz ultra-compact (150um x 280um) analog PLL implemented in a 45-nm CMOS technology with a fully integrated LC-VCO and an on-chip passive R-C loop filter will further be used to show that area scaling can indeed be achieved for a PLL through a rigorous area-scaling scheme of LC oscillators and a new loop filter structure. New emerging applications such as software-defined radios or highly integrated test instrumentation require the PLL synthesizer to have ultra wide bandwidth and ultra low phase noise. We will present the approaches to mitigate these challenging design objectives by exploiting the capabilities of nanometer transistors. A wideband synthesizer covering from 125MHz to 32GHz with a constant performance across the entire frequency range will be presented; the scaling schemes and design methodologies to achieve constant noise performance across the ultra-wide frequency range will be discussed. Finally, an ultra low noise fractional-N synthesizer will be presented to show how low phase noise fractional-N frequency synthesis can be achieved by taking the full advantage of nano-scale CMOS transistors.

Download or read book Integrated Frequency Synthesizers for Wireless Systems written by Andrea Leonardo Lacaita and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-28 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasingly demanding performance requirements of communications systems, as well as problems posed by the continued scaling of silicon technology, present numerous challenges for the design of frequency synthesizers in modern transceivers. This book contains everything you need to know for the efficient design of frequency synthesizers for today's communications applications. If you need to optimize performance and minimize design time, you will find this book invaluable. Using an intuitive yet rigorous approach, the authors describe simple analytical methods for the design of phase locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesizers using scaled silicon CMOS and bipolar technologies. The entire design process, from system-level specification to layout, is covered comprehensively. Practical design examples are included, and implementation issues are addressed. A key problem-solving resource for practitioners in IC design, the book will also be of interest to researchers and graduate students in electrical engineering.

Download or read book CMOS Fractional N Synthesizers written by Bram De Muer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-29 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CMOS Fractional-N Synthesizers starts with a comprehensive introduction to general frequency synthesis. Different architectures and synthesizer building blocks are discussed with their relative importance on synthesizer specifications. The process of synthesizer specification derivation is illustrated with the DCS-1800 standard as a general test case. The book tackles the design of fractional-N synthesizers in CMOS on circuit level as well as system level. The circuit level focuses on high-speed prescaler design up to 12 GHz in CMOS and on fully integrated, low-phase-noise LC-VCO design. High-Q inductor integration and simulation in CMOS is elaborated and flicker noise minimization techniques are presented, ranging from bias point choice to noise filtering techniques. On a higher level, a systematic design strategy has been developed that trades off all noise contributions and fast dynamics for integrated capacitance (area). Moreover, a theoretical DeltaSigma phase noise analysis is presented, extended with a fast non-linear analysis method to accurately predict the influence of PLL non-linearities on the spectral purity of the DeltaSigma fractional-N frequency synthesizers.

Download or read book CMOS PLL Synthesizers Analysis and Design written by Keliu Shu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-20 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to the advance of semiconductor and communication technology, the wireless communication market has been booming in the last two decades. It evolved from simple pagers to emerging third-generation (3G) cellular phones. In the meanwhile, broadband communication market has also gained a rapid growth. As the market always demands hi- performance and low-cost products, circuit designers are seeking hi- integration communication devices in cheap CMOS technology. The phase-locked loop frequency synthesizer is a critical component in communication devices. It works as a local oscillator for frequency translation and channel selection in wireless transceivers and broadband cable tuners. It also plays an important role as the clock synthesizer for data converters in the analog-and-digital signal interface. This book covers the design and analysis of PLL synthesizers. It includes both fundamentals and a review of the state-of-the-art techniques. The transient analysis of the third-order charge-pump PLL reveals its locking behavior accurately. The behavioral-level simulation of PLL further clarifies its stability limit. Design examples are given to clearly illustrate the design procedure of PLL synthesizers. A complete derivation of reference spurs in the charge-pump PLL is also presented in this book. The in-depth investigation of the digital CA modulator for fractional-N synthesizers provides insightful design guidelines for this important block.

Download or read book CMOS Single Chip Fast Frequency Hopping Synthesizers for Wireless Multi Gigahertz Applications written by Taoufik Bourdi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the authors outline detailed design methodology for fast frequency hopping synthesizers for RF and wireless communications applications. There is great emphasis on fractional-N delta-sigma based phase locked loops from specifications, system analysis and architecture planning to circuit design and silicon implementation. The developed techniques in the book can help in designing very low noise, high speed fractional-N frequency synthesizers.

Download or read book Low Voltage CMOS RF Frequency Synthesizers written by Howard Cam Luong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A frequency synthesizer is one of the most critical building blocks in any wireless transceiver system. Its design is getting more and more challenging as the demand for low-voltage low-power high-frequency wireless systems continuously grows. As the supply voltage is decreased, many existing design techniques are no longer applicable. This book provides the reader with architectures and design techniques to enable CMOS frequency synthesizers to operate at low supply voltage at high frequency with good phase noise and low power consumption. In addition to updating the reader on many of these techniques in depth, this book will also introduce useful guidelines and step-by-step procedure on behaviour simulations of frequency synthesizers. Finally, three successfully demonstrated CMOS synthesizer prototypes with detailed design consideration and description will be elaborated to illustrate potential applications of the architectures and design techniques described. For engineers, managers and researchers working in radio-frequency integrated-circuit design for wireless applications.

Download or read book High Performance AD and DA Converters IC Design in Scaled Technologies and Time Domain Signal Processing written by Pieter Harpe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-23 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the 18 tutorials presented during the 23rd workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design. Expert designers present readers with information about a variety of topics at the frontier of analog circuit design, serving as a valuable reference to the state-of-the-art, for anyone involved in analog circuit research and development.

Download or read book All Digital Frequency Synthesizer in Deep Submicron CMOS written by Robert Bogdan Staszewski and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-09-22 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and innovative paradigm for RF frequency synthesis and wireless transmitter design Learn the techniques for designing and implementing an all-digital RF frequency synthesizer. In contrast to traditional RF techniques, this innovative book sets forth digitally intensive design techniques that lead the way to the development of low-cost, low-power, and highly integrated circuits for RF functions in deep submicron CMOS processes. Furthermore, the authors demonstrate how the architecture enables readers to integrate an RF front-end with the digital back-end onto a single silicon die using standard ASIC design flow. Taking a bottom-up approach that progressively builds skills and knowledge, the book begins with an introduction to basic concepts of frequency synthesis and then guides the reader through an all-digital RF frequency synthesizer design: Chapter 2 presents a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO), which is the foundation of a novel architecture, and introduces a time-domain model used for analysis and VHDL simulation Chapter 3 adds a hierarchical layer of arithmetic abstraction to the DCO that makes it easier to operate algorithmically Chapter 4 builds a phase correction mechanism around the DCO such that the system's frequency drift or wander performance matches that of the stable external frequency reference Chapter 5 presents an application of the all-digital RF synthesizer Chapter 6 describes the behavioral modeling and simulation methodology used in design The final chapter presents the implementation of a full transmitter and experimental results. The novel ideas presented here have been implemented and proven in two high-volume, commercial single-chip radios developed at Texas Instruments: Bluetooth and GSM. While the focus of the book is on RF frequency synthesizer design, the techniques can be applied to the design of other digitally assisted analog circuits as well. This book is a must-read for students and engineers who want to learn a new paradigm for RF frequency synthesis and wireless transmitter design using digitally intensive design techniques.

Download or read book Integrated Frequency Synthesizers for Wireless Systems written by Andrea Lacaita and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasingly demanding performance requirements of communications systems, as well as problems posed by the continued scaling of silicon technology, present numerous challenges for the design of frequency synthesizers in modern transceivers. This book contains everything you need to know for the efficient design of frequency synthesizers for today's communications applications. If you need to optimize performance and minimize design time, you will find this book invaluable. Using an intuitive yet rigorous approach, the authors describe simple analytical methods for the design of phase locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesizers using scaled silicon CMOS and bipolar technologies. The entire design process, from system-level specification to layout, is covered comprehensively. Practical design examples are included, and implementation issues are addressed. A key problem-solving resource for practitioners in IC design, the book will also be of interest to researchers and graduate students in electrical engineering.

Download or read book CMOS PLL Synthesizers Analysis and Design written by Shu Keliu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to the advance of semiconductor and communication technology, the wireless communication market has been booming in the last two decades. It evolved from simple pagers to emerging third-generation (3G) cellular phones. In the meanwhile, broadband communication market has also gained a rapid growth. As the market always demands hi- performance and low-cost products, circuit designers are seeking hi- integration communication devices in cheap CMOS technology. The phase-locked loop frequency synthesizer is a critical component in communication devices. It works as a local oscillator for frequency translation and channel selection in wireless transceivers and broadband cable tuners. It also plays an important role as the clock synthesizer for data converters in the analog-and-digital signal interface. This book covers the design and analysis of PLL synthesizers. It includes both fundamentals and a review of the state-of-the-art techniques. The transient analysis of the third-order charge-pump PLL reveals its locking behavior accurately. The behavioral-level simulation of PLL further clarifies its stability limit. Design examples are given to clearly illustrate the design procedure of PLL synthesizers. A complete derivation of reference spurs in the charge-pump PLL is also presented in this book. The in-depth investigation of the digital CA modulator for fractional-N synthesizers provides insightful design guidelines for this important block.

Download or read book Wireless CMOS Frequency Synthesizer Design written by J. Craninckx and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent boom in the mobile telecommunication market has trapped the interest of almost all electronic and communication companies worldwide. New applications arise every day, more and more countries are covered by digital cellular systems and the competition between the several providers has caused prices to drop rapidly. The creation of this essentially new market would not have been possible without the ap pearance of smalI, low-power, high-performant and certainly low-cost mobile termi nals. The evolution in microelectronics has played a dominant role in this by creating digital signal processing (DSP) chips with more and more computing power and com bining the discrete components of the RF front-end on a few ICs. This work is situated in this last area, i. e. the study of the full integration of the RF transceiver on a single die. Furthermore, in order to be compatible with the digital processing technology, a standard CMOS process without tuning, trimming or post-processing steps must be used. This should flatten the road towards the ultimate goal: the single chip mobile phone. The local oscillator (LO) frequency synthesizer poses some major problems for integration and is the subject of this work. The first, and also the largest, part of this text discusses the design of the Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO). The general phase noise theory of LC-oscillators is pre sented, and the concept of effective resistance and capacitance is introduced to char acterize and compare the performance of different LC-tanks.

Download or read book Transformer Based Design Techniques for Oscillators and Frequency Dividers written by Howard Cam Luong and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides in-depth coverage of transformer-based design techniques that enable CMOS oscillators and frequency dividers to achieve state-of-the-art performance. Design, optimization, and measured performance of oscillators and frequency dividers for different applications are discussed in detail, focusing on not only ultra-low supply voltage but also ultra-wide frequency tuning range and locking range. This book will be an invaluable reference for anyone working or interested in CMOS radio-frequency or mm-Wave integrated circuits and systems.

Download or read book Fast Hopping High frequency Carrier Generation in Digital CMOS Technology written by Mohammad Farazian and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the challenges in implementing a frequency synthesizer for Multi-band OFDM Ultra Wideband (MB-OFDM UWB) is overcoming the agility limitations of conventional synthesizers. The MB-OFDM proposal for UWB divides the spectrum from 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz into 14 different bands, and frequency hops at the rate of 3.2 MHz between them with a specified frequency settling time of only 9.5 nS. Design techniques that eliminate the use of on-chip inductors, and which are compatible with low voltage operation, are critical for increasing the level of integration for future implementations. An inductor-less design methodology may have several advantages over traditional design techniques: (1) While the area required to implement an on-chip inductor does not scale down in the finer technology nodes, inductor-less designs benefit from technology scaling. (2) On the other hand, the quality factor of the on-chip inductors may worsen in finer technology nodes, which can lead to an increase in the required current consumption to generate a given voltage swing. (3) It is more straightforward to port an inductor-less design into a new technology node. The penalty for an inductor-less design methodology is a slightly increase in the current consumption to achieve the necessary gain and voltage swing in the absence of inductors. In this work, a frequency plan is proposed that can generate all the required frequencies from a single fixed frequency and can implement any center frequency with a maximum of two levels of SSB mixing. In order to generate all the required frequencies for the operation of this frequency synthesizer out of a single frequency, fractional frequency dividers are needed. Therefore, a study is performed on the architectures that can obtain a fractional division ratio. This study involves an analysis of the operation, stability, and phase noise of injection-locked regenerative frequency dividers. In addition, the operation, stability, locking range, and phase noise of two-stage ring-oscillators, which are compact ways to generate quadrature output phases and can be used in injection-locked regenerative frequency dividers, are analyzed. This work presents the first CMOS inductor-less single PLL 14-band frequency synthesizer for MB-OFDM UWB which is capable to perform any arbitrary band switching specified in less than 2 nS. Implemented in a 0.13 & mu;m CMOS process, it uses a single 1.2 V supply voltage, and dissipates 135 mW. The mixing sideband level is better than -31 dBc and the phase noise is better than -110 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset.

Download or read book Millimeter Wave Digitally Intensive Frequency Generation in CMOS written by Wanghua Wu and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the digitally intensive time-domain architectures and techniques applied to millimeter-wave frequency synthesis, with the objective of improving performance and reducing the cost of implementation. Coverage includes system architecture, system level modeling, critical building block design, and digital calibration techniques, making it highly suitable for those who want to learn about mm-wave frequency generation for communication and radar applications, integrated circuit implementation, and time-domain circuit and system techniques. - Highlights the challenges of frequency synthesis at mm-wave band using CMOS technology - Compares the various approaches for mm-wave frequency generation (pros and cons) - Introduces the digitally intensive synthesizer approach and its advantages - Discusses the proper partitioning of the digitally intensive mm-wave frequency synthesizer into mm-wave, RF, analog, digital and software components - Provides detailed design techniques from system level to circuit level - Addresses system modeling, simulation techniques, design-for-test, and layout issues - Demonstrates the use of time-domain techniques for high-performance mm-wave frequency synthesis

Download or read book High Speed and High Performance Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizer Design written by Jun-an Zhang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on design technology of high-speed and high-performance direct digital frequency synthesizer (DDS) chip. The technologies involves phase to amplitude converter design, D/A converter design, phase accumulator design, multi-chip synchronization circuit design, etc. In each chapter, the concept of the technology is explained first, and then the features of different implementation schemes are introduced through the real design cases. More over, a design case of a 2.5GHz monolithic DDS in 0.18 μm CMOS which was designed by the authors are introduced in detail, which can help the reader understanding about the of DDS design deeply. The book is suitable for the readers who are interested to learn practical design technology in DDS. The book can benefit researchers, engineers, and graduate students in fields of mix-signal IC design, communication engineering, electronics engineering, and radar engineering, etc.

Download or read book High frequency Synthesis Using Phase locked Loops for Wide Tuning range Applications and Sub 1 V Operation in Deep Submicron CMOS Processes written by Omar Abdel Fattah and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Frequency synthesizers based on phase-locked loop (PLL) are ubiquitous components in RF communication systems. Frequency synthesizer PLLs must comply with the stringent requirements of RF systems such as noise, linearity, locking time, stability, and power consumption. The continuous shrinkage of the technology dimensions and power supply values exacerbated the situation and made the design more daunting especially at high frequencies. Integrability and long-life batteries have become extremely important targets in modern life. The ability to incorporate multiple standards in one device has recently stimulated a great deal of interest and brought to existence applications such as software-defined radio (SDR) and cognitive radio (CR). Such applications require very wide tuning range frequency synthesizers to cover multiple standards. The ability to cover this wide range with a single frequency synthesizer PLL is very desirable in terms of cost, area, and power. In this thesis, we tackle high frequency synthesis in light of the challenges imposed by modern CMOS technologies. More specifically, we tackle two design challenges. The first challenge is the need for wide tuning-range frequency synthesizer PLLs; and the second challenge is the need for analog circuits, including frequency synthesizer PLLs, that can operate from supply voltages below 0.6 V as predicted by semiconductor roadmaps for the next decade. In response to these technology demands, we provide three different IC implementations with measurement results to verify the theoretical findings. We demonstrate two frequency synthesizer PLLs in 65 nm CMOS technology. The first PLL focuses on wide tuning-range for applications such as SDR and CR, while operating from a supply voltage as low as 1.2 V. A continuous frequency range from 156.25 MHz to 10 GHz is achieved using a single frequency synthesizer PLL. The second PLL focuses on sub-1 V operation to generate a low-noise output. This PLL operates from a 0.55 V power supply and consumes 3 mW of power. The designed PLLs show comparable performance with the state-of-the-art PLLs in the literature in CMOS and other technologies. Furthermore, a third IC implementation of an ultra-low-voltage operational-transconductance-amplifier (OTA) is presented. The OTA combines different low-voltage techniques along with a novel biasing technique that allows operation from a supply voltage as low as 0.35 V. The ultra-low-voltage OTA can be used as a building block for the design of other biasing circuitry at low voltage such as bandgap references and voltage regulators." --

Download or read book Integrated RF CMOS Frequency Synthesizers and Oscillators for Wireless Applications written by Adem Aktas and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: PLL (Phase-Locked Loop) frequency synthesizers are used in wireless transceivers for frequency conversion. Recent directions in PLL frequency synthesizer research and development are to fully integrate PLL synthesizers in CMOS technology, to improve phase noise performance, and to operate wide range of frequency bands and channel bandwidths. Fully integration of synthesizers in CMOS technology is desired for low cost, low power consumption and small size in mobile wireless terminals. Low phase noise is required by digital modulation techniques which have been used in new mobile standards for the efficient use of the frequency spectrum. Operation over a wide range of frequency bands and channel bandwidths are required to support migration and backward compatibility in the wireless standard evolution. This work investigates the PLL frequency synthesizer design and implementation in CMOS technology with focus on integration of wideband VCOs (Voltage-Controlled Oscillators). Phase noise of a PLL synthesizer is a major design parameter. A PLL noise model is developed for noise optimization purposes. Wideband RF VCO design with sub-bands is investigated. Frequency planning, synthesizer architecture and technology considerations are also explored for wideband VCO design. Band switching techniques VCO tuning range presented. Active VCO circuit topologies and resonator design are also presented. The PLL frequency synthesizers are designed and implemented for a multi-band/standard(IEEE 802.11a/b/g) WLAN radio in 0.18um CMOS. Phase noise trade-offs for PLL design are explored in this application. Development and design of a wideband VCO for this application is also presented. An auto calibration circuit is developed for VCO tuning band selection. Another application of the wideband PLL frequency synthesizer is designed and implemented for a fully integrated dual-mode frequency synthesizer for GSM and WCDMA standards in 0.5um CMOS. A hybrid integer-N/fractional-N architecture is developed to meet the multi-standard requirements. Design and implementation of high performance RF VCO depends on the RF models of the devices. RF CMOS characterization and modeling techniques are explored. Microwave wafer measurement and calibration techniques are also investigated for CMOS technology.