CMOS surface acoustic wave oscillators

Author

Nordin, Anis Nurashikin ; Zaghloul, Mona ; Korman, Can ; Ahma, Shahrokh

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., George Washington Univ., DC

fYear

2005

fDate

7-10 Aug. 2005

Firstpage

607

Abstract

In this paper we describe the design and implementation of a CMOS surface acoustic wave (SAW) oscillator. The oscillator utilizes surface acoustic wave resonators implemented in both 1.6micron and 0.5micron AMI CMOS process and fabricated through MOSIS. When connected to Pierce oscillator circuits, these resonators are capable of synthesizing frequencies in the range of 400MHz to 1GHz. This paper also addresses the design issues involving codesigning micromachined resonators with CMOS circuitry to optimize the oscillator design

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; UHF oscillators; integrated circuit design; surface acoustic wave oscillators; surface acoustic wave resonators; 0.4 to 1 GHz; 0.5 micron; 1.6 micron; AMI CMOS process; CMOS surface acoustic wave oscillators; MOSIS; Pierce oscillator circuits; integrated circuit design; micromachined resonators; surface acoustic wave resonators; Acoustic waves; Ambient intelligence; CMOS process; Equivalent circuits; Frequency synthesizers; Lithium; Oscillators; Piezoelectric materials; Surface acoustic wave devices; Surface acoustic waves;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2005. 48th Midwest Symposium on

Conference_Location

Covington, KY

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9197-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSCAS.2005.1594174

Filename

1594174