A Current-Reused Injection-Locked Frequency Multiplication/Division Circuit in 40-nm CMOS

Author

Pin-Hao Feng ; Shen-Iuan Liu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

Volume

61

Issue

4

fYear

2013

fDate

41365

Firstpage

1523

Lastpage

1532

Abstract

A current-reused injection-locked frequency multiplication/division circuit is presented. By using a similar circuit core, a V-band (50-75 GHz) multiply-by-1.5 injection-locked frequency multiplier and an F-band (90-140 GHz) divide-by-6 injection-locked frequency divider are realized in 40-nm CMOS. Measured locking ranges of the multiplier and divider are 3.04 GHz (5.2%) and 8.17 GHz (6.7%), respectively. By using a harmonic peaking technique, a V-band multiply-by-2.5 multiplier and an F -band divide-by-10 divider are presented. The measured locking ranges of are 3.06 GHz (6.1%) and 8.56 GHz (8.5%), respectively.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; injection locked amplifiers; CMOS; circuit core; current reused injection locked frequency division circuit; current reused injection locked frequency multiplication circuit; frequency 3.04 GHz; frequency 3.06 GHz; frequency 50 GHz to 75 GHz; frequency 8.17 GHz; frequency 8.56 GHz; frequency 90 GHz to 140 GHz; harmonic peaking technique; injection locked frequency divider; injection locked frequency multiplier; size 40 nm; Band pass filters; Harmonic analysis; Inductors; Mixers; Phase locked loops; Voltage-controlled oscillators; Current reused; fractional multiplication ratio; high division ratio; injection-locked frequency divider (ILFD); injection-locked frequency multiplier (ILFM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9480

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMTT.2013.2249526

Filename

6479349