A V-band wide locking-range injection-locked CMOS VCO for wireless network-on-chip receiver

Author

Sah, Suman P. ; Xinmin Yu ; Agarwal, Prabhakar ; Rashtian, Hooman ; Pande, Partha Pratim ; Deukhyoun Heo ; Mirabbasi, Shahriar

Author_Institution

Dept. of EECS, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

2-7 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This work presents a V-band wide locking-range injection-locked VCO (ILVCO) for a wireless network-on-chip (WiNoC) receiver. The design is aimed to achieve wide locking-range at low injection power so as to be used as a carrier recovery circuit in a low power receiver. Wide locking-range is achieved by means of enhanced transconductance injection in a complementary VCO. The ILVCO achieves a locking-range of 1.3 GHz at -10 dBm input power. The ILVCO, implemented in 65 nm CMOS process, occupies an active area of 0.024 mm² and consumes only 5.7 mW. The ILVCO has a 460 mV_p-p output swing and thus requires no buffer to drive a mixer.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; injection locked oscillators; network-on-chip; voltage-controlled oscillators; ILVCO; V-band wide locking-range injection-locked CMOS VCO; WiNoC receiver; carrier recovery circuit; complementary VCO; frequency 1.3 GHz; mixer; power 5.7 mW; size 65 nm; transconductance injection; wireless network-on-chip receiver; CMOS integrated circuits; Power demand; Power generation; Receivers; Tuning; Voltage-controlled oscillators; CMOS; VCO; WiNoC; injection-locked; receiver;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest (IMS), 2013 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6177-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697632

Filename

6697632