Title :
A fast automatic tuning algorithm for Voltage Controlled Oscillators
Author :
El-Shennawy, Mohammed ; Hegazi, Emad
Author_Institution :
Design Dept., Silicon Vision LLC, Cairo, Egypt
Abstract :
In this paper we present a fast automatic tuning algorithm for Voltage Controlled Oscillators (VCOs) with multiple tuning curves. Many practical implementation issues are shown along with their solutions. To evaluate the speed of the algorithm, a design example comprising a 2.4GHz VCO is presented where we use a regression test bench to run the algorithm many times each with a different initial VCO frequency and record the final VCO frequency and tuning time. The worst case tuning time is only 7.2μsec.
Keywords :
regression analysis; tuning; voltage-controlled oscillators; VCO frequency; fast automatic tuning algorithm; multiple tuning curves; regression test bench; voltage controlled oscillators; worst case tuning time; Clocks; Phase locked loops; Radiation detectors; Synchronization; Time frequency analysis; Tuning; Voltage-controlled oscillators; Automatic Tuning; Frequency Synthesizer; PLL; VCO;
Conference_Titel :
Microelectronics (ICM), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cairo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-149-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICM.2010.5696112
