A 0.9-V Double-Balanced Quadrature-Input Quadrature-Output Frequency Divider

Author

Zheng, Hui ; Luong, Howard C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol.

fYear

2006

Firstpage

37

Lastpage

40

Abstract

A double-balanced quadrature-input quadrature-output (QIQO) divider is proposed. By making use of the quadrature phase outputs from a quadrature VCO (QVCO) or the other quadrature signal generator, the proposed QIQO divider provides a mechanism to achieve an output IQ phase sequence that is inherently tracked with the input IQ phase sequence. Moreover, compared with conventional dividers, the QIQO divider not only provides smaller and better-matched input loading to the QVCO but also improved quadrature phase accuracy for both QVCO and the divider itself. Fabricated in a 0.18-mum CMOS process and operated at 0.9 V, the QIQO divider measures an image rejection of -62 dBc while consuming 7.2 mW

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; frequency dividers; integrated circuit manufacture; voltage-controlled oscillators; 0.18 micron; 0.9 V; 7.2 mW; CMOS process; IQ phase sequence; frequency divider; quadrature VCO; quadrature phase outputs; quadrature signal generator; quadrature-input quadrature-output divider; Amplitude modulation; CMOS process; Circuits; Clocks; Energy consumption; Frequency conversion; Frequency synthesizers; Signal generators; Transceivers; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 2006. CICC '06. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0075-9

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0076-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICC.2006.320959

Filename

4114904