A Digitally Controlled Injection-Locked Oscillator with Fine Frequency Resolution

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A Digitally Controlled Injection-Locked Oscillator with Fine Frequency Resolution

Journal Article (2016)

Author(s)

I Bashir (University of Texas at Dallas, Cypress Semiconductor Corp.)

Bogdan Staszewski (University College Dublin)

Poras T. Balsara (University of Texas at Dallas)

Research Group

Electronics

Digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) All-digital PLL (ADPLL) Digital phase rotator (DPR) Digital-to-frequency converter (DFC) Digitally controlled delay (DCD) Multi-stage noise Sigma;Delta; (MASH)

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https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2016.2539342 Final published version

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Publication Year

2016

Language

English

Research Group

Electronics

Journal title

IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits

Issue number

6

Volume number

51

Article number

7452405

Pages (from-to)

1347-1360

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178

Abstract

We propose a digitally controlled injection-locked RF oscillator with an auxiliary loop as an alternative to the conventional capacitive fine-tuning of an LC-tank. The oscillator is injection locked to a time-delayed version of its resonating voltage and its frequency is modulated by manipulating the phase and amplitude of injected current. The injection strength can be programmed for the DCO step size to be as fine as 9 kHz at 4 GHz. Alternatively, with large injection strength, the tuning range can reach up to 200 MHz. The proposed oscillator is experimentally verified in TSMC 40 nm digital CMOS.