A CMOS voltage-to-frequency linearizing preprocessor for parallel plate RF MEMS varactors

Author

McCorquodale, M.S. ; Mei Kim Ding ; Brown, R.B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

Abstract

A generalized parallel plate radio frequency microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) varactor is presented and studied. Its application in an RF oscillator is described and the nonlinear relationship between tuning voltage and realized output frequency is derived. A low power CMOS integrated circuit is proposed to linearize the response. The circuit consumes at most 100/spl mu/W of power while linearizing the voltage-to-frequency response to a correlation coefficient (R/sup 2/) of 0.9988. The described circuit and theory can be employed in any application where the nonlinear response associated with parallel plate RF MEMS varactors must be compensated.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; linearisation techniques; low-power electronics; micromechanical devices; radiofrequency oscillators; tuning; varactors; 100 muW; CMOS voltage-to-frequency linearizing preprocessor; RF oscillator; correlation coefficient; low-power integrated circuit; nonlinear tuning response; parallel plate RF MEMS varactor; Capacitance; Circuit optimization; Frequency; Inductors; Micromechanical devices; Radiofrequency microelectromechanical systems; Tuning; Varactors; Voltage; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 2003 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Philadelphia, PA, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7695-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2003.1211024

Filename

1211024