A Low Voltage Divide-by-4 Injection Locked Frequency Divider With Quadrature Outputs

Author

Lee, Shao-Hua ; Jang, Sheng-Lyang ; Chung, Yun-Hsueh

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Taipei

Volume

17

Issue

5

fYear

2007

fDate

5/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

373

Lastpage

375

Abstract

This letter presents a low voltage quadrature divide-by-4 (divide4) injection-locked frequency divider (QILFD). The QILFD consists of a 1.8-GHz quadrature voltage controlled oscillator (QVCO) and two NMOS switches, which are inserted into the quadrature outputs of the QVCO for signal injection. The low-voltage CMOS divide4 QILFD has been implemented with the TSMC 0.18-mum 1P6 M CMOS technology and the core power consumption is 3.12mW at the supply voltage of 1.2V. The free-running frequency of the QILFD is tunable from 1.73 to 1.99GHz, the measured phase noise of QILFD is -118dBc/Hz at 1-MHz offset from the free running frequency of 1.82GHz. At the input power of 0dBm, the total locking range is from 6.86 to 8.02GHz as the tuning voltage is varied from 0 to 1.2V. The phase noise of the locked output spectrum is lower than that of free running ring oscillator by 11dBc/Hz. The phase deviation of quadrature output is about 0.8deg

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; frequency dividers; low-power electronics; voltage-controlled oscillators; 0 to 1.2 V; 0.18 micron; 1.8 GHz; 6.86 to 8.02 GHz; CMOS; divide by four; injection locked frequency divider; low voltage; quadrature voltage controlled oscillator; CMOS technology; Energy consumption; Frequency conversion; Frequency measurement; Low voltage; MOS devices; Noise measurement; Phase noise; Switches; Voltage-controlled oscillators; CMOS; direct injection locking; divide-by-four ($div$4); quadrature voltage controlled oscillator (QVCO);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1531-1309

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LMWC.2007.895718

Filename

4167925