Design and implementation of an active inductor based LC oscillator

Author

Ghorbel, Imen ; Haddad, Fayrouz ; Rahajandraibe, Wenceslas ; Barthélemy, Hervé ; Loulou, Mourad ; Mnif, Hassene

Author_Institution

IM2NP, Univ. of Provence, Marseille, France

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper operation of an LC oscillator in two distinct frequency bands, dedicated respectively to Zigbee standard (2.4GHz-2.483GHz) and RFID standard (860MHz-960MHz) is presented. To perform low power consumption and low silicon area, an LC quadrature controlled oscillator using an active inductance has been used. The proposed topology has been simulated under 1.2V supply voltage using the typical model parameters of the 0.13μm CMOS process from STMicroelectronics. At the two separated frequency bands the phase noise is lower than -83dBcHz with frequency offset of 1MHz. At the same simulation condition the total power consumption is 5.5mW only.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; UHF integrated circuits; UHF oscillators; Zigbee; inductors; low-power electronics; phase noise; radiofrequency identification; CMOS process; LC oscillator; LC quadrature controlled oscillator; RFID standard; STMicroelectronics; Zigbee standard; active inductance; active inductor; frequency 2.4 GHz to 2.483 GHz; frequency 860 MHz to 960 MHz; low power consumption; phase noise; power 5.5 mW; size 0.13 mum; voltage 1.2 V; Active inductors; Inductance; Oscillators; Radiofrequency identification; Transistors; Zigbee;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microelectronics (ICM), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hammamet

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2207-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICM.2011.6177372

Filename

6177372