Title : 
Single-Event Transient Effect on a Self-Biased Ring-Oscillator PLL and an LC PLL Fabricated in SOS Technology
         
        
            Author : 
Shita Guo ; Jingxiao Li ; Ping Gui ; Yi Ren ; Li Chen ; Bhuva, B.L.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Southern Methodist Univ., Dallas, TX, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The single-event transient effect on a ring-oscillator based and an LC-tank based phased-locked loop circuits fabricated in a 0.25 μm silicon-on-sapphire technology is analyzed with circuit-level simulations followed by laser experiments. Advantages of the LC-tank based circuits in terms of single-event tolerance over the ring-oscillator based circuits are discussed.
         
        
            Keywords : 
LC circuits; circuit simulation; integrated circuit design; phase locked loops; phase locked oscillators; silicon-on-insulator; transient analysis; voltage-controlled oscillators; LC PLL; LC-tank based phased-locked loop circuits; SOS technology; circuit-level simulations; laser experiments; ring-oscillator based circuits; self-biased ring-oscillator PLL; silicon-on-sapphire technology; single-event tolerance; single-event transient effect; size 0.25 mum; Phase locked loops; Silicon on sapphire; Single event transients; Transient analysis; Voltage-controlled oscillators; Double-exponential simulation; SET laser test; phased-locked loop (PLL); single-event transient (SET);
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/TNS.2013.2283057