A 66–72 GHz divide-by-3 injection-locked frequency divider in 0.13-μm CMOS technology

Author

Wang, Chi-Hsueh ; Chen, Chung-Chun ; Lei, Ming-Fong ; Chuang, Mei-Chen ; Wang, Huei

Author_Institution

Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei

fYear

2007

fDate

12-14 Nov. 2007

Firstpage

344

Lastpage

347

Abstract

This paper demonstrates a CMOS injection-locked frequency divider (ILFD) operating at 66 GHz with low dc power. The divide-by-3 ILFD is realized using 0.13-mum CMOS technology with an injection locking range of 1.5 GHz at high core current mode and a locking range of 6.3 GHz at low core current mode. To the authors´ knowledge, the ILFD is the highest frequency demonstration, the widest locking range and the lowest dc power consumption of a divide-by-3 injection-locked frequency divider reported to date.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; UHF frequency convertors; frequency dividers; CMOS technology; DC power consumption; frequency 1.5 GHz; frequency 66 GHz to 72 GHz; injection-locked frequency divider; size 0.13 micron; Admittance; CMOS technology; Capacitors; Circuits; Energy consumption; Frequency conversion; Frequency synthesizers; Injection-locked oscillators; MOS devices; Semiconductor device measurement; CMOS; injection-locked divider; microwave FET oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2007. ASSCC '07. IEEE Asian

Conference_Location

Jeju

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1359-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1360-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASSCC.2007.4425701

Filename

4425701