An 85-GHz injection-locked frequency divider with current-reuse pre-amplifier technique

Author

Chu, Shu-Wei ; Wang, Chorng-Kuang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2011

fDate

14-16 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

89

Lastpage

92

Abstract

In this paper, the design of an 85-GHz injection-locked frequency divider (ILFD) with a current-reuse pre-amplifier is presented. Utilizing a current-reuse pre-amplifier can efficiently increase the input frequency locking range without extra power consumption. The divider is implemented in 90-nm CMOS technology for W-band (75 to 110 GHz) applications. The core area is 0.31×0.21 mm², and the measured operation range is 78 ~ 90.6 GHz. The center frequency is 85 GHz and the locking range is 14.8%. The power is 2.33 mW excluding buffers from a 1.2 V supply voltage.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; field effect MMIC; frequency dividers; injection locked amplifiers; millimetre wave amplifiers; millimetre wave frequency convertors; preamplifiers; CMOS technology; current-reuse pre-amplifier technique; frequency 75 GHz to 110 GHz; frequency locking range; injection-locked frequency divider; power 2.33 mW; power consumption; size 90 nm; voltage 1.2 V; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Mixers; Oscillators; Solid state circuits; Transconductance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), 2011 IEEE Asian

Conference_Location

Jeju

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1784-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASSCC.2011.6123611

Filename

6123611