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Book Low Power VCO Design in CMOS

Download or read book Low Power VCO Design in CMOS written by Marc Tiebout and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-25 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work covers the design of CMOS fully integrated low power low phase noise voltage controlled oscillators for telecommunication or datacommuni- tion systems. The need for low power is obvious, as mobile wireless telecommunications are battery operated. As wireless telecommunication systems use oscillators in frequency synthesizers for frequency translation, the selectivity and signal to noise ratio of receivers and transmitters depend heavily on the low phase noise performance of the implemented oscillators. Datacommunication s- tems need low jitter, the time-domain equivalent of low phase noise, clocks for data detection and recovery. The power consumption is less critical. The need for multi-band and multi-mode systems pushes the high-integration of telecommunication systems. This is o?ered by sub-micron CMOS feat- ing digital ?exibility. The recent crisis in telecommunication clearly shows that mobile hand-sets became mass-market high-volume consumer products, where low-cost is of prime importance. This need for low-cost products - livens tremendously research towards CMOS alternatives for the bipolar or BiCMOS solutions in use today.

Book Design of High Performance CMOS Voltage Controlled Oscillators

Download or read book Design of High Performance CMOS Voltage Controlled Oscillators written by Liang Dai and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design of High-Performance CMOS Voltage-Controlled Oscillators presents a phase noise modeling framework for CMOS ring oscillators. The analysis considers both linear and nonlinear operation. It indicates that fast rail-to-rail switching has to be achieved to minimize phase noise. Additionally, in conventional design the flicker noise in the bias circuit can potentially dominate the phase noise at low offset frequencies. Therefore, for narrow bandwidth PLLs, noise up conversion for the bias circuits should be minimized. We define the effective Q factor (Qeff) for ring oscillators and predict its increase for CMOS processes with smaller feature sizes. Our phase noise analysis is validated via simulation and measurement results. The digital switching noise coupled through the power supply and substrate is usually the dominant source of clock jitter. Improving the supply and substrate noise immunity of a PLL is a challenging job in hostile environments such as a microprocessor chip where millions of digital gates are present.

Book Low power Low phase noise Voltage controlled Oscillator Design

Download or read book Low power Low phase noise Voltage controlled Oscillator Design written by Yue Yu and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The design of voltage-controlled Oscillators nowadays is all about being capable of operating at higher clock frequencies for the purpose of higher data rate, consuming less power for the purpose of longer battery life, and having better phase noise performance for the purpose of higher quality of wireless service and more efficient use of the available frequency spectrum since most of the wireless and mobile terminals that these VCOs work in are required to be able to operate in multiple RF standards to serve new generations of standards while being backward compatible with existing ones, leading to a demand for multi-standard multi-band radio operation that deals with high frequency RF signals that undergo different modulation schemes of different standards in different channels over a wide range of frequency band. A top-down system design from the PLL to the VCO is carried out to determine the specifications for a fully integrated dual-band voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) designed for a Zero-IF WiMAX/WLAN receiver in a O.18tm CMOS technology with 1.8V supply voltage. A VCO employing a differential cross-coupled inductance-capacitance (LC) tank architecture is proposed to cover twice the desired frequency bands for WiMAX and WLAN standards in order to avoid load pulling between VCO frequency and incoming RF frequency. The switching between two bands is implemented by using two binary-weighted capacitor arrays while switching inside each sub-band is implemented by different digital control signal combinations for the binary-weighted capacitances. A phase noise of -120.7dB/Hz at 1MHz offset frequency is demonstrated for an oscillation frequency of 4.84GHz. The average power consumption of this VCO is 8.1mW. This VCO is developed as an IP (Intellectual Property) to be used in a fully integrated CMOS multi-standard WiMAX/WLAN radio allowing seamless roaming of handheld mobile devices between hotspots in future Wireless Metropolitan Area Network (WMAN). To compare the performance of ring oscillators to that of LC tank oscillators, the designs of two three-stage multiple-pass voltage-controlled ring oscillators with dual-delay paths are demonstrated where the differential delay cell utilizes both the primary loop delay and the negative skewed delay to increase the frequency of oscillation substantially and retain or even increase tuning range. Their phase noise performance is also improved by switching in and out the transistors periodically. In design I, the covered frequency range is from 0.74 GHz to 1.96 GHz, which translates to a tuning range of 90 % A phase noise of -104.995dBc/Hz is demonstrated for an oscillation frequency of 1.8535 GHz. Each stage draws a current of 4.963mA on average from a 1.8V power supply, resulting in a power consumption of 26.8mW. In design II, the covered frequency range is from 1.0478 GHz to 2.0022 GHz, which translates to a tuning range of 63%. The frequency-voltage curve is almost a perfect linear curve for V between OV and 0.9V. A phase noise of -110.O45dBc/Hz is demonstrated for an oscillation frequency of 2.00216 GHz. Each stage draws a current of 10.179mA on average from a 1.8V power supply, resulting in a power consumption of 55mW.

Book Low Noise Low Power Design for Phase Locked Loops

Download or read book Low Noise Low Power Design for Phase Locked Loops written by Feng Zhao and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces low-noise and low-power design techniques for phase-locked loops and their building blocks. It summarizes the noise reduction techniques for fractional-N PLL design and introduces a novel capacitive-quadrature coupling technique for multi-phase signal generation. The capacitive-coupling technique has been validated through silicon implementation and can provide low phase-noise and accurate I-Q phase matching, with low power consumption from a super low supply voltage. Readers will be enabled to pick one of the most suitable QVCO circuit structures for their own designs, without additional effort to look for the optimal circuit structure and device parameters.

Book The Design of Low Noise Oscillators

Download or read book The Design of Low Noise Oscillators written by Ali Hajimiri and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is hardly a revelation to note that wireless and mobile communications have grown tremendously during the last few years. This growth has placed stringent requi- ments on channel spacing and, by implication, on the phase noise of oscillators. C- pounding the challenge has been a recent drive toward implementations of transceivers in CMOS, whose inferior 1/f noise performance has usually been thought to disqualify it from use in all but the lowest-performance oscillators. Low noise oscillators are also highly desired in the digital world, of course. The c- tinued drive toward higher clock frequencies translates into a demand for ev- decreasing jitter. Clearly, there is a need for a deep understanding of the fundamental mechanisms g- erning the process by which device, substrate, and supply noise turn into jitter and phase noise. Existing models generally offer only qualitative insights, however, and it has not always been clear why they are not quantitatively correct.

Book Phase Noise Suppression Techniques for 5 6GHZ Oscillator Design

Download or read book Phase Noise Suppression Techniques for 5 6GHZ Oscillator Design written by Yang Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wide band Low Noise Quadrature VCO in CMOS SOI

Download or read book Wide band Low Noise Quadrature VCO in CMOS SOI written by Yipeng Wang and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis presents a wide-band, low phase noise, low power Quadrature Voltage Controlled Oscillator (QVCO) designed in 0.18um CMOS Silicon on Insulator (SOI) technology. The 2.4 GHz ISM band QVCO achieves -124 dBc/Hz phase noise at 1MHz offset, 25% tuning range and 2.4mW power consumption under 1.1V supply. The SOI technology facilitates the design of high performance LC-VCO. High substrate resistance of SOI enables the fabrication of high Q on-chip inductor, which significantly improves VCO's phase noise performance. Moreover, an accumulation-mode (AMOS) varactor with reduced junction parasitic in SOI widens the VCO's tuning range. The Ring Injection Locked Frequency Divider (Ring-ILFD) demonstrates its wide locking range and low power consumption in high speed application. A combination of multiple injection and direct injection technique is used in this design to further enhance the locking range. The ILFD generates quadrature signal by halving the core VCO's output while strictly following its phase noise performance.

Book High Frequency Integrated Circuits

Download or read book High Frequency Integrated Circuits written by Sorin Voinigescu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 921 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A transistor-level, design-intensive overview of high speed and high frequency monolithic integrated circuits for wireless and broadband systems from 2 GHz to 200 GHz, this comprehensive text covers high-speed, RF, mm-wave, and optical fibre circuits using nanoscale CMOS, SiGe BiCMOS, and III-V technologies. Step-by-step design methodologies, end-of chapter problems, and practical simulation and design projects are provided, making this an ideal resource for senior undergraduate and graduate courses in circuit design. With an emphasis on device-circuit topology interaction and optimization, it gives circuit designers and students alike an in-depth understanding of device structures and process limitations affecting circuit performance.

Book Analysis and Design of Quadrature Oscillators

Download or read book Analysis and Design of Quadrature Oscillators written by Luis B. Oliveira and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern RF receivers and transmitters require quadrature oscillators with accurate quadrature and low phase-noise. Existing literature is dedicated mainly to single oscillators, and is strongly biased towards LC oscillators. This book is devoted to quadrature oscillatorsand presents adetailed comparative study ofLC and RCosc- lators, both at architectural and at circuit levels. It is shown that in cross-coupled RC oscillators both the quadrature error and phase-noise are reduced, whereas in LC - cillators the coupling decreases the quadrature error, but increases the phase-noise. Thus, quadrature RC oscillators can be a practical alternative to LC oscillators, - pecially when area and cost are to be minimized. The main topics of the book are: cross-coupled LC quasi-sinusoidal oscillators, cross-coupled RC relaxation oscillators, a quadrature RC oscillator-mixer, and t- integrator oscillators. The effect of mismatches on the phase-error and the pha- noise are thoroughly investigated. The book includes many experimental results, obtained from different integrated circuit prototypes, in the GHz range. A structured design approach is followed: a technology independent study, with ideal blocks, is performed initially, and then the circuit level design is addressed. This book can be used in advanced courses on RF circuit design. In addition to post-graduate students and lecturers, this book will be of interest to design engineers and researchers in this area.

Book Low Phase Noise Voltage controlled Oscillator Design

Download or read book Low Phase Noise Voltage controlled Oscillator Design written by Zhipeng Zhu and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two kinds of voltage-controlled oscillators (VCO)--active inductor based VCO and LC cross-coupled VCO--are studied in this work. Although the phase noise performance is not competitive, the proposed active inductor based VCO provide an alternative method to VCO design with very small chip area and large tuning range. The measurement shows a test oscillator based on active inductor topology successfully oscillates near 530MHz band. The phase noise of the widely used LC cross-coupled VCO is extensively investigated in this work. Under the widely used power dissipation and chip area constraints, a novel optimization procedure in LC oscillator design centered on a new inductance selection criterion is proposed. This optimization procedure is based on a physical phase noise model. From it, several closed-form expressions are derived to describe the phase noise generated in the LC oscillators, which indicate that the phase noise is proportional to the L2· gL3 factor. The minimum value of this factor for an area-limited spiral inductor is proven to monotonically decrease with increasing inductance, suggesting a larger inductance is helpful to reduce the phase noise in LC VCO design. The validity of the optimization procedure is proven by simulations. Two test chips are designed and measured.

Book A New Architecture for Low voltage Low phase noise High frequency CMOS LC Voltage controlled Oscillator

Download or read book A New Architecture for Low voltage Low phase noise High frequency CMOS LC Voltage controlled Oscillator written by Anthony Dac Lieu and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented in this work is a novel design technique for a low-phase-noise high-frequency CMOS voltage-controlled oscillator. Phase noise is generated from electrical noise near DC, the oscillation frequency, and its harmonics. In CMOS technology, low-frequency flicker noise dominates the close-in phase noise of the VCO. The proposed technique minimizes the VCO phase noise by seeking to eliminate the effect of flicker noise on the phase n6se. This is accomplished by canceling out the DC component of the impulse sensitivity function (ISF) corresponding to each flicker-noise source, thus preventing the up-conversion of low-frequency noise into phase noise. The proposed circuit topology is a modified version of the complementary cross-coupled transconductance VCO, where additional feedback paths are introduced such that a designer can choose the feedback ratios, transistor sizes, and bias voltages to achieve the previously mentioned design objectives. A step-by-step design algorithm is presented along with a MATLAB script to aid in the computation of the ISFs and the phase noise of the VCO. Using this algorithm, a 5-GHz VCO was designed and fabricated in a 0.18m︡ CMOS process, and then tested for comparison with simulated results.

Book A Design and Analysis of High Performance Voltage Controlled Oscillators

Download or read book A Design and Analysis of High Performance Voltage Controlled Oscillators written by Bin Wan and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Low Power Low Phase Noise Voltage Controlled Oscillator

Download or read book A Low Power Low Phase Noise Voltage Controlled Oscillator written by Kriyang Shah and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The explosive growth in wireless communication has driven research into low-cost, low-power and miniaturised wireless receivers. A low power and low phase noise voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) is one of the key components of transceiver systems. Close-in phase noise, responsible for jitter in time domain, is the most important parameter of a VCO as it results in inter-symbol interferences in high speed analogue to digital converters (ADCs). VCO phase noise also degrades system sensitivity and selectivity of wireless receivers. To improve battery life, VCO designs for wireless receivers must consume the least possible power. Hence, the primary aims of this research are to achieve a VCO with very low close-in phase noise and with low power consumption. Substantial research into VCO topologies and the design of on-chip passive elements has made on-chip complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) implementation of LC-tank VCO possible. However, the principle issues with CMOS LC-VCOs have been the unavailability of a high quality factor (Q) on-chip inductor and high flicker noise of active devices.