An analytical maximum toggle frequency expression and its application to optimizing high-speed ECL frequency dividers

Author

Fang, Wen ; Brunnschweiler, Arthur ; Ashburn, Peter

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Sci., Southampton Univ., UK

Volume

25

Issue

4

fYear

1990

fDate

8/1/1990 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

920

Lastpage

931

Abstract

A novel method is used to analyze static and regenerative frequency dividers by relating their performance to that of the constituent EXCLUSIVE-OR (XOR) gates. It is found that the behavior of the propagation delay of XOR gates is quite linear, and this allows the derivation of a propagation delay expression for XOR gates using a sensitivity analysis. The validity of the expression is checked by comparison with SPICE simulations and with results from the literature, and agreement to 10% is obtained. It has been found that this expression can be used to accurately predict the maximum toggle frequency of frequency dividers. Using this expression, it has also been verified that the maximum toggle frequency of regenerative frequency dividers is about twice as high as that of static frequency dividers. In order to optimize frequency dividers, figures of merit for frequency dividers realized in silicon and AlGaAs-GaAs technologies are proposed

Keywords

bipolar integrated circuits; delays; emitter-coupled logic; frequency dividers; integrated logic circuits; logic design; sensitivity analysis; AlGaAs-GaAs; ECL frequency dividers; EXCLUSIVE-OR; Si; XOR gates; logic circuits; maximum toggle frequency expression; propagation delay; regenerative frequency dividers; sensitivity analysis; static frequency dividers; Capacitance; Circuits; Current density; Frequency conversion; Gallium arsenide; Optimization methods; Performance analysis; Propagation delay; Sensitivity analysis; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9200

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4.58284

Filename

58284