Recent developments in standing-wave oscillator design: review

Author

Andress, Wzllzam ; Ham, Donhee

Author_Institution

Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

6-8 June 2004

Firstpage

119

Lastpage

122

Abstract

The paper summarizes the most recent advances in wave-based oscillator design, reviewing various manifestations of the traveling-wave oscillator and the standing-wave oscillator. We then review and analyze our latest development of standing-wave oscillator design utilizing wave-adaptive tapered transmission lines (Andress, W. and Ham, D., IEEE VLSI Symp., 2004). This structure lowers phase noise through loss-reducing shaping of the transmission line, such that it is adapted to the position-dependent standing wave amplitudes. Demonstrating the benefits of standing-wave-based operations, this novel design concept boosts the potential for the emergence of standing-wave oscillators as a useful alternative to the traditional LC oscillator.

Keywords

nonlinear network analysis; phase noise; radiofrequency oscillators; transmission line theory; transmission lines; RF oscillators; phase noise; position-dependent standing wave amplitudes; standing-wave oscillator design; traveling wave oscillator; wave-adaptive tapered transmission lines; wave-based oscillator design; Clocks; Inverters; Noise level; Noise shaping; Oscillators; Phase noise; Propagation losses; Radio frequency; Transmission line theory; Transmission lines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, 2004. Digest of Papers. 2004 IEEE

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8333-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2004.1320545

Filename

1320545