Title :
New low-power ICO/VCO with double cross-coupled high-speed architecture
Author :
Tchamov, Nikolay ; Popov, Anguel ; Jarske, Petri
Author_Institution :
Telecommun. Lab., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Finland
Abstract :
New circuits of high-speed multivibrators have been developed and subsequently used to create a new ICO/VCO circuit. While implemented on 0.8 μm BiCMOS (14 GHz NPN) an amplitude on the symmetrical output of 550 mV at 2 GHz, with consumption less than 3.3 mW from 1.5 V power supply can be easily achieved. The control ability of the ICO is about 2.6 MHz/μA. The low phase-noise makes the circuit also suitable for building high-speed PLLs for various applications in communications and microprocessors
Keywords :
BiCMOS integrated circuits; UHF integrated circuits; integrated circuit noise; multivibrators; phase locked loops; phase noise; voltage-controlled oscillators; 0.8 micron; 1.5 V; 14 GHz; 2 GHz; 3.3 mW; 550 mV; BiCMOS IC; current-controlled oscillator; double cross-coupled high-speed architecture; high-speed PLL; high-speed multivibrators; low phase-noise; low-power ICO/VCO; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Capacitors; Circuit analysis; Frequency; Laboratories; Phase noise; Power supplies; Pulse shaping methods; Resistors; Voltage; Voltage-controlled oscillators;
Conference_Titel :
Analog and Mixed IC Design, 1996., IEEE-CAS Region 8 Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Pavia
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3625-9
DOI :
10.1109/AMICD.1996.569370
