Accurate modeling of submicron CMOS ring Voltage Controlled Oscilators

Author

Fino, M. Helena

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electro-Tech. Eng., FCT/UNL, Caparica

fYear

2007

fDate

29-31 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

97

Lastpage

100

Abstract

This paper presents an accurate model for symmetric load ring Voltage Controlled Oscillators (VCO) in submicron technologies. The proposed VCO model is based on the Mosfet Advanced Compact Model in order to guarantee high accuracy of results when submicron technologies are used. An example considering a 1.8 V SMIC018 VCO is presented, where the accuracy of the results obtained against Hspice simulation is shown. The simplicity of the model as well as the accuracy of the results obtained, make the proposed model a good candidate for being integrated into a system for the automatic design of VCOs.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; SPICE; network synthesis; voltage-controlled oscillators; Hspice simulation; Mosfet Advanced Compact Model; VCO model; submicron technologies; symmetric load ring voltage controlled oscillators; voltage 1.8 V; CMOS technology; Circuit simulation; Circuit synthesis; Delay; Design methodology; Iterative methods; Semiconductor device modeling; Virtual colonoscopy; Voltage control; Voltage-controlled oscillators; analog design; submicron technologies; voltage controlled oscillator model;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microelectronics, 2007. ICM 2007. Internatonal Conference on

Conference_Location

Cairo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1846-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1847-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICM.2007.4497670

Filename

4497670