• DocumentCode
    2255128
  • 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
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    19-22 Dec. 2010
  • Firstpage
    188
  • Lastpage
    191
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microelectronics (ICM), 2010 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cairo
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-61284-149-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICM.2010.5696112
  • Filename
    5696112