Title :
A stoppable four-phase clock generator for low-power and low-noise applications
Author :
Zid, Mounir ; Tourki, Rached ; Scandurra, Alberto ; Pistritto, Carlo
Author_Institution :
Electron. & Micro-Electron. Lab., Fac. of Sci. of Monastir (FSM), Monastir, Tunisia
Abstract :
In this work we present a low-power, low-area and high-speed fully CMOS quadrature clock generator for low-power and low-noise on-chip devices. The device is constructed around a couple of differential prescalers for high speed frequency division and four duty cycle adjusters to set the duty cycle of the produced clock signals at 50% of the clock period. The circuit was implemented with the STMicroelectronics 65 nm process technology using only 125 transistors and it occupies an active area of under 2.34 μm2. With a power supply of 1.1 V the complete circuit consumes 89.56 μW at room temperature.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; MOSFET; clocks; low-power electronics; prescalers; CMOS quadrature clock generator; STMicroelectronics; differential prescalers; four duty cycle adjusters; high speed frequency division; low-noise on-chip devices; low-power devices; power 89.56 muW; size 65 nm; stoppable four-phase clock generator; temperature 293 K to 298 K; transistors; voltage 1.1 V; CMOS integrated circuits; Clocks; Generators; Power demand; Synchronization; Transistors; Four-phase clock generator; High-speed devices; Multiphase Clocks; SerDes; low-power architectures; parallel architectures;
Conference_Titel :
Microelectronics (ICM), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hammamet
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2207-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICM.2011.6177352
