Title :
A new approach to determine the start-up time of sinusoidal oscillators
Author :
Voigt, Burkhard ; Seefeldt, Dirk ; Horneber, Ernst-Helmut
Author_Institution :
Inst. fur Netzwerktheorie und Schaltungstech., Tech. Univ. Braunschweig, Germany
Abstract :
A transient waveform leaving the metastable equilibrium of a flipflop exhibits a very similar shape like the rising amplitude of an LC oscillator in the start-up phase. This paper is used to develop a new approach to determine the start-up behavior of nearly sinusoidal oscillators
Keywords :
CMOS analogue integrated circuits; crystal oscillators; network analysis; relaxation oscillators; CMOS crystal oscillators; LC oscillator; Van der Pol oscillators; flipflop model; metastable equilibrium; sinusoidal oscillators; start-up time determination; transient waveform; Capacitors; Circuit simulation; Differential equations; Metastasis; Oscillators; RLC circuits; SPICE; Shape; Trigger circuits; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 1994., Proceedings of the 37th Midwest Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Lafayette, LA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2428-5
DOI :
10.1109/MWSCAS.1994.519007
