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A current‐mode tunable low‐supply‐voltage ring oscillator
Author(s) -
Ma Minglin,
Wang Chunhua
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
international journal of rf and microwave computer‐aided engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1099-047X
pISSN - 1096-4290
DOI - 10.1002/mmce.20470
Subject(s) - capacitor , phase noise , inductor , electrical engineering , lc circuit , oscillation (cell signaling) , dbc , ring oscillator , electronic oscillator , voltage controlled oscillator , voltage , topology (electrical circuits) , physics , materials science , optoelectronics , engineering , biology , genetics
A new circuit topology using a current‐mode low‐pass filter for sinusoids has been presented. The technique is relatively simple, in the proposed circuit, only three identical current‐mode low‐pass filters are connected to each other to realize the small signal path. No external passive components are required except for three capacitors. When compared with LC oscillators, the die area of this work, without inductors, is much smaller. When compared with voltage‐mode ring oscillators, the supply voltage of this work is much lower. As a particular example, a 2.4 GHz, 1.2‐V power supply, 5‐mW sinusoidal oscillator is demonstrated. The oscillation frequency is tuned by the value of that three capacitors, over ∼900 MHz, and the tuning range is 37.5%. The phase noise results in −94 and −120 dBc/Hz at 1 and 10 MHz from the carrier, respectively. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE, 2010.