Title :
Surpassing Tradeoffs by Separation: Examples in Frequency Generation Circuits
Author :
Andress, William F. ; Woo, Kyoungho ; Ham, Donhee
Author_Institution :
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
Abstract :
We review three examples (two PLLs [Crowley, 1979; Woo et al.] and one on-chip transmission-line resonator [Andress and Ham, 2005] ) of design tradeoffs which can in fact be circumvented; the key in each case is that the parameters that seem to trade off with each other are actually separated in time or space. This paper is an attempt to present these designs in such a way that this common approach can hopefully be applied to other circuits.
Keywords :
frequency synthesizers; oscillators; phase locked loops; resonators; transmission lines; frequency generation circuits; frequency synthesizers; on-chip transmission-line resonator; oscillators; phase locked loops; surpassing tradeoffs; Bandwidth; Circuits; Frequency; Phase locked loops; Power system transients; Power transmission lines; Propagation losses; Silicon; Steady-state; Strips;
Conference_Titel :
Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, 2008. SiRF 2008. IEEE Topical Meeting on
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1855-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1856-5
DOI :
10.1109/SMIC.2008.39
