Title :
12-23 GHz ultra wide tuning range voltage-controlled ring oscillator with hybrid control schemes
Author :
Yim, Young Uk ; McDonald, John F. ; Kraft, Russell P.
Author_Institution :
Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY, USA
Abstract :
This paper presents the design of a voltage-controlled ring oscillator that has ultra wide tuning range of 12 to 23 GHz with hybrid control schemes. The voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) uses a feedforward interpolation topology scheme and a varactor diode load capacitance variation scheme to control the oscillation. The measurement result of the VCO shows good linearity in frequency-voltage characteristics over the ultra wide tuning range.
Keywords :
circuit tuning; integrated circuit design; varactors; voltage-controlled oscillators; 12 to 23 GHz; feedforward interpolation topology scheme; frequency-voltage characteristics; ultrawide tuning range; varactor diode load capacitance variation scheme; voltage-controlled ring oscillator; Capacitance; Diodes; Frequency measurement; Interpolation; Ring oscillators; Topology; Tuning; Varactors; Voltage control; Voltage-controlled oscillators;
Conference_Titel :
VLSI, 2005. Proceedings. IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2365-X
DOI :
10.1109/ISVLSI.2005.1
