Frequency divider design using the combination of transistors and passive devices

Author

Gan, Kwang-Jow ; Liang, Dong-Shong ; Tsai, Cher-Shiung ; Chen, Yaw-Hwang ; Tai, Cheng-Chi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Kun Shan Univ., Tainan

fYear

2009

fDate

15-18 Feb. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The behavior of a novel frequency divider circuit using negative differential resistance (NDR) circuit is studied. This NDR circuit is made of resistors (R) and bipolar-junction-transistor (BJT) devices. It can show the NDR characteristic in its combined current-voltage curve by suitably arranging the resistances. We call this NDR circuit as R-BJT-NDR circuit in this paper. A chaos circuit consisted of an R-BJT-NDR device, an inductor, and a capacitor is investigated. It demonstrates the period-adding sequences which appear in its bifurcation diagram to perform the frequency division. We investigate the effects of the input frequency and input amplitude on the operation.

Keywords

bifurcation; bipolar transistors; capacitors; chaos; frequency dividers; inductors; network synthesis; resistors; bifurcation diagram; bipolar-junction-transistor; capacitor; chaos circuit; current-voltage curve; frequency divider circuit; inductor; negative differential resistance circuit; resistors; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Bifurcation; CMOS technology; Capacitors; Chaotic communication; Fabrication; Frequency conversion; Inductors; Resistors; System-on-a-chip; chaos circuit; frequency divider; negative differential resistance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics and the Canadian Radio Science Meeting, 2009. ANTEM/URSI 2009. 13th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2979-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2980-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ANTEMURSI.2009.4805067

Filename

4805067