A 0.35-um CMOS switched-inductor dual-band LC-tank frequency divider

Author

Jang, Sheng Lyang ; Lin, Che Yi ; Lee, Chien Feng

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Taipei

fYear

2008

fDate

23-25 April 2008

Firstpage

240

Lastpage

242

Abstract

This paper presents a switched-inductor dual-band injection locked frequency divider (ILFD) fabricated in a 0.35-um CMOS process. The circuit is made of a differential double cross-coupled CMOS LC oscillator with a switched-inductor LC-tank, which consists of a parallel LC tank in parallel with one switched inductor composite. The dual-band function is obtained by switching the MOS switch in the inductor composite. At the supply voltage of 2.4 V, the measured free-running frequencies of the divide-by-two dual band ILFD are from 2.52 GHz to 2.61 GHz for the low-frequency band and from 4.18 GHz to 4.39 GHz for the high-frequency band. At the incident power of 0 dBm. the locking ranges of low-frequency and high-frequency band are respectively from 4.0 GHz to 5.8 GHz and from 7.1 GHz to 9.3 GHz.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; UHF oscillators; frequency dividers; inductors; microwave oscillators; CMOS switched-inductor; LC oscillator; LC-tank frequency divider; dual band frequency divider; frequency 2.52 GHz to 2.61 GHz; frequency 4.0 GHz to 5.8 GHz; frequency 7.1 GHz to 9.3 GHz; injection locked frequency divider; size 0.35 mum; voltage 2.4 V; CMOS process; Dual band; Frequency conversion; Frequency measurement; Inductors; Injection-locked oscillators; Signal generators; Switches; Switching circuits; Voltage-controlled oscillators; CMOS; Dual-band; LC-tank oscillator; injection-locked frequency divider; switched resonator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI Design, Automation and Test, 2008. VLSI-DAT 2008. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Hsinchu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1616-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1617-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VDAT.2008.4542457

Filename

4542457