Multi-phase ring oscillator with minimized phase noise for ultra-wideband applications

Author

Yousef, K. ; Jia, Hongjie ; Allam, A. ; Anand, A. ; Pokharel, R. ; Kaho, T.

Author_Institution

Electron. & Commun. Eng. Dept., Egypt-Japan Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Alex, Egypt

Volume

2

fYear

2014

fDate

26-28 April 2014

Firstpage

1115

Lastpage

1117

Abstract

This paper presents the design of a simple multiphase ring oscillator (RO). It represents a new technique for RO output signal phase control. This RO uses a voltage injection principle to produce different phases output signal. The proposed RO consumes only 3.6 mW from a 1.8V power supply while having an oscillation frequency of 5.5 GHz with a 330 MHz fine tuning range. This RO is employing the pulse injection technique for phase noise enhancement. It has a phase noise less than -133.5 dBc/Hz @ 1 MHz offset. It achieves a figure of merit (FoM) of -182.75 dBc/Hz. This RO is designed and simulated in the standard 0.18 μm CMOS technology.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; field effect MMIC; microwave oscillators; phase control; phase noise; ultra wideband communication; CMOS technology; frequency 5.5 GHz; phase noise; power 3.6 mW; power supply; pulse injection; signal phase control; simple multiphase ring oscillator; size 0.18 mum; ultra-wideband applications; voltage 1.8 V; voltage injection principle; CMOS integrated circuits; Delays; Inverters; Phase control; Phase noise; Ring oscillators; Multi-Phase Ring Oscillator; Phase Noise; Pulse Injection; Voltage Injection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Science, Electronics and Electrical Engineering (ISEEE), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sapporo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3196-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/InfoSEEE.2014.6947843

Filename

6947843