• DocumentCode
    3545453
  • Title

    Capacitively averaged multi-phase LC oscillators

  • Author

    Park, JunYoung ; Flynn, Michael P.

  • Author_Institution
    Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    23-26 May 2005
  • Firstpage
    2651
  • Abstract
    This paper addresses the improvement of phase noise and phase accuracy in coupled rings of LC oscillators. A new method incorporating coupling both with capacitors and transistors is presented. A number of 4 GHz, coupled, three stage LC oscillator rings were fabricated in 0.18 μm CMOS. The measured rms jitter and phase noise of a capacitively averaged ring are 1.183 ps, and -133.67 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset, respectively.
  • Keywords
    CMOS analogue integrated circuits; MMIC oscillators; coupled circuits; phase noise; timing jitter; 0.18 micron; 4 GHz; CMOS; capacitively averaged oscillators; capacitor coupling; coupled ring LC oscillators; jitter; multiphase LC oscillators; multistage oscillator rings; phase accuracy; phase noise; transistor coupling; Capacitors; Clocks; Computer science; Injection-locked oscillators; MOSFETs; Phase noise; Q factor; Radio frequency; Resonant frequency; Ring oscillators;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Circuits and Systems, 2005. ISCAS 2005. IEEE International Symposium on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8834-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISCAS.2005.1465171
  • Filename
    1465171