The variations of osillation freqeuncy according to the oscillation amplitudes in DCO

Author

Yoo, Sang-Sun ; Park, Jeong-Ho ; Song, Hong-Joo ; Yoo, Hyung-Joun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea

fYear

2010

fDate

15-17 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In DCO, oscillation frequency can be continuously changed by large oscillation amplitudes. The effect of oscillation amplitude is valid for any oscillator with steep C-V characteristic. The effect is critical in DCO because it needs very small capacitance control. For verifying the oscillation effect, an opposite-coupled pair in DCO with oscillation amplitude and a separated opposite-coupled pair are measured, respectively. As the result, the polarity of unit tuning frequency can be even inverted at large oscillation amplitude. Although capacitance is increased by control voltage in the separated pair, the oscillation frequency of DCO is increased, which differs from an expectation. This means that the effective capacitance of DCO is decreased by oscillation amplitude. This paper analyzes this effect and explains it with the effective capacitance.

Keywords

phase locked loops; radiofrequency oscillators; switching circuits; varactors; DCO; capacitance control; digitally controlled oscillator; opposite-coupled pair; oscillation amplitude; osillation freqeuncy; steep C-V characteristic; unit tuning frequency; CMOS integrated circuits; Charge coupled devices; Radio frequency; Solid modeling; Switches; DCO; PLL; VCO; component; digital RF; switching circuit; varactor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC), 2010 IEEE International Conference of

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9997-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDSSC.2010.5713724

Filename

5713724