Download or read book A 1 8 GHz LC Voltage Controlled Oscillator Using On chip Inductors and Body Driven Varactors in CMOS 0 35 mu m Process written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era dominated by the highly demanding wireless communication system, there is a great need for developing small, cheap, and low power RF sub-systems. This demand has lead to significant research on completely integrated transceiver systems. One of the great challenges in an integrated transceiver system is the frequency synthesizer. Frequency synthesizers are usually implemented using a phase locked loop (PLL) and low frequency highly stable crystal oscillator. The spectral purity of a synthesized carrier signal depends on the kind of Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) used. Hence successful implementation of a low phase noise, completely integrated VCO in standard CMOS process is a major step towards implementing a completely integrated transceiver. The best VCO architecture in terms of noise performance is LC-VCO. The aim of the current research is to design a completely integrated 1.8 GHz LC-VCO for a GSM or DCS-1800 receiver in standard CMOS 0.35 [mu]m technology. The major challenge in a completely integrated LC-VCO is to develop an fully integrated inductor. In this research various means of implementing an integrated inductor have been scrutinized and the best feasible among them the on-chip spiral inductor has been analyzed elaborately. The complete design cycle from describing the specification of an inductor to the final layout in Cadence has been described. Also a new symmetrical, highly balanced on-chip inductor has been used in the current design. Another important and the most critical challenge is to implement a very high tuning range, high Q-factor on-chip varactor in standard CMOS process. In this research a new body driven varactor, which is forced to operate in accumulation mode has been developed and analyzed elaborately. The tuning range specification for the design was chosen to be 200 MHz accounting for component tolerance. Various means of measuring phase noise has been elaborately analyzed. Also detailed study on improving the noise performance of the LC-VCO has been studied.

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.

Download or read book Millimeter Wave Voltage Controlled Oscillators in 0 13 micrometer CMOS Technology written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper describes the design of CMOS millimeter-wave voltage controlled oscillators. Varactor, transistor, and inductor designs are optimized to reduce the parasitic capacitances. An investigation of tradeoff between quality factor and tuning range for MOS varactors at 24 GHz has shown that the polysilicon gate lengths between 0.18 and 0.24 micrometer result in both good quality factor (>12) and Cmax/Cmin ratio (~3) in the 0.13-micrometer CMOS process used for the study. The components were utilized to realize a VCO operating around 60 GHz with a tuning range of 5.8 GHz. A 99-GHz VCO with a tuning range of 2.5 GHz, phase noise of --102.7 dBc/Hz at 10-MHz offset and power consumption of 7-15 mW from a 1.5-V supply and a 105-GHz VCO are also demonstrated. This is the CMOS circuit with the highest fundamental operating frequency. The lumped element approach can be used even for VCOs operating near 100-GHz and it results in a smaller circuit area.

Download or read book LC tank CMOS Voltage controlled Oscillators Using High Quality Inductor Embedded in Advanced Packaging Technologies written by Sangwoong Yoon and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation focuses on high-performance LC-tank CMOS VCO design at 2 GHz. The high-Q inductors are realized using wiring metal lines in advanced packages. Those inductors are used in the resonator of the VCO to achieve low phase noise, low power consumption, and a wide frequency tuning range. In this dissertation, a fine-pitch ball-grid array (FBGA) package, a multichip module (MCM)-L package, and a wafer-level package (WLP) are incorporated to realize the high-Q inductor. The Q-factors of inductors embedded in packages are compared to those of inductors monolithically integrated on Si and GaAs substrates. All the inductors are modeled with a physical, simple, equivalent two-port model for the VCO design as well as for phase noise analysis. The losses in an LC-tank are analyzed from the phase noise perspective. For the implementation of VCOs, the effects of the interconnection between the embedded inductor and the VCO circuit are investigated. The VCO using the on-chip inductors is designed as a reference. The performance of VCOs using the embedded inductor in a FBGA and a WLP is compared with that of a VCO using the on-chip inductor. The VCO design is optimized from the high-Q perspective to enhance performance. Through this optimization, less phase noise, lower power consumption, and a wider frequency tuning range are obtained simultaneously.

Download or read book Design of 18 5 GHz CMOS Voltage Controlled Oscillator Using Off chip BCB Process Inductor and Flip chip Technology written by 鄭喨繼 and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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:

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.

Download or read book A Highly Linear Voltage Controlled Oscillator with Low Power Dissipation written by Sourabh Sharma and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A voltage-controlled oscillator using the 90 nm CMOS technology has been presented with the total power dissipation of 14 mW, which provides 1.7 mW of total output power. It has highly linear voltage to frequency transformation, with only 4.85% of maximum error. This VCO works in the long range from 5.1 to 9.099 GHz. The controlling voltage varies from 0 to 0.5 volts. The oscillator is powered by a 1 volt power supply.

Download or read book A High Speed Integrated Voltage Controlled Oscillator in Commercial CMOS Technology written by Sameer Vasantlal Vora and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Download or read book Mixed Analog digital VLSI Devices and Technology written by Yannis Tsividis and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improve your circuit-design potential with this expert guide to the devices and technology used in mixed analog-digital VLSI chips for such high-volume applications as hard-disk drives, wireless telephones, and consumer electronics. The book provides you with a critical understanding of device models, fabrication technology, and layout as they apply to mixed analog-digital circuits.You will learn about the many device-modeling requirements for analog work, as well as the pitfalls in models used today for computer simulators such as Spice. Also included is information on fabrication technologies developed specifically for mixed-signal VLSI chips, plus guidance on the layout of mixed analog-digital chips for a high degree of analog-device matching and minimum digital-to-analog interference.This reference book features an intuitive introduction to MOSFET operation that will enable you to view with insight any MOSFET model ? besides thorough discussions on valuable large-signal and small-signal models.Filled with practical information, this first-of-its-kind book will help you grasp the nuances of mixed-signal VLSI-device models and layout that are crucial to the design of high-performance chips.

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.

Download or read book Ku Band Rotary Traveling wave Voltage Controlled Oscillator written by Fangzhou Sun and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) plays a key role in determination of the link budget of wireless communication, and consequently the performance of the transceiver. Lowering the noise contribution from the VCO to the entire system is always challenging and remains the active research area. Motivated by high demands for the low-phase noise, low-power consumption VCO in the application of 5G, radar-sensing system, implantable device, to name a few, this research focused on the design of a rotary travelling-wave oscillator (RTWO). A power conscious RTWO with reliable direction control of the wave propagation was investigated. The phase noise was analyzed based on the proposed RTWO. The phase noise reduction technique was introduced by using tail current source filtering technique in which a figure-8 inductors were employed. Three RTWO were implemented based on GF 130 nm standard CMOS process and TSMC 130 nm standard CMOS process. The first design was achieving 16-GHz frequency with power consumption of 5.8-mW with 190.3 dBc/Hz FoM at 1 MHz offset. The second and third design were operating at 14-GHz with a power consumption range of 13-18.4mW and 14.6-20.5mW, respectively. The one with filtering technique achieved FoM of 184.8 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz whereas the one without inudctor filtering obtained FoM of 180.8 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset based on simulation.

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.

Download or read book Voltage controlled Oscillator VCO Design Used in Phase locked Loops PLLs Based on CMOS Process written by Chian Hin Teuu and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reconfigurable Dual mode Voltage controlled Oscillator and Wideband Frequency Synthesizer for Millimeter wave Applications written by Cheng-Hsien Hung and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demands for high data-rate communications and high-precision sensing applications have pushed wireless systems towards higher operating frequencies where wider bandwidth is available. Examples of such applications include 60 GHz indoor communications and vehicular RADAR around 77 GHz. High-speed frequency synthesizers integrated in a CMOS process, with wide operating bandwidth, and low phase noise are key to low-cost transceiver implementations for such applications. The requirement to operate over a wide span of carrier frequencies arises from two key sources. The system itself often requires a wide tuning range, in excess of 5-10% of the carrier frequency. Further, it is necessary to compensate for the uncertainty in operating frequencies, caused by process and temperature variations. This dissertation introduces a dual-mode voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) topology, embedded in a frequency synthesizer, for wideband operation. The VCO can operate in two oscillation modes by reconfiguring the active negative resistance core around the LC tank that is employed as the resonator element in the oscillator. A key aspect to the design is that the switches used for mode reconfiguration do not contribute to the tank loss. The frequency spacing of the two modes is determined by an accurate inductor ratio. It is demonstrated through analysis that in order to ensure mode-switching, the size of the switches needs be larger than a critical value, which is a function of the electrical properties of the cross-coupled, negative resistance core, as well as the resonator used in the design. The impact of noise injection and mismatch on switching behavior is also analyzed. The VCO topology has been implemented in a 65nm CMOS process. The design demonstrates measured tuning ranges of 56.9 GHz to 65.4 GHz, and 64.6 GHz to 75.3 GHz, in the two respective modes, for a total effective tuning range of 28%. The oscillator consumes 13 mW, with a 1 V-supply, and its Figure of Merit with tuning range (FOM[subscript T]) is -177.2 dB. An integer-N frequency synthesizer that employs the dual-mode VCO, has also been designed and verified in a 65 nm CMOS process. The synthesizer has a locking range from 56 GHz to 63.9 GHz in its low frequency mode. The total power consumption of the synthesizer, including output buffers, is approximately 50 mW. The in-band phase noise, at a locked frequency of 63.04 GHz, is -88.4 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset.

Download or read book The Design and Implementation of Low Power CMOS Radio Receivers written by Derek Shaeffer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is hardly a profound observation to note that we remain in the midst of a wireless revolution. In 1998 alone, over 150 million cell phones were sold worldwide, representing an astonishing 50% increase over the previous year. Maintaining such a remarkable growth rate requires constant innovation to decrease cost while increasing performance and functionality. Traditionally, wireless products have depended on a mixture of semicond- tor technologies, spanning GaAs, bipolar and BiCMOS, just to name a few. A question that has been hotly debated is whether CMOS could ever be suitable for RF applications. However, given the acknowledged inferiority of CMOS transistors relative to those in other candidate technologies, it has been argued by many that “CMOS RF” is an oxymoron, an endeavor best left cloistered in the ivory towers of academia. In rebuttal, there are several compelling reasons to consider CMOS for wi- less applications. Aside from the exponential device and density improvements delivered regularly by Moore’s law, only CMOS offers a technology path for integrating RF and digital elements, potentially leading to exceptionally c- pact and low-cost devices. To enable this achievement, several thorny issues need to be resolved. Among these are the problem of poor passive com- nents, broadband noise in MOSFETs, and phase noise in oscillators made with CMOS. Beyond the component level, there is also the important question of whether there are different architectural choices that one would make if CMOS were used, given the different constraints.