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A current reused CMOS quadrature injection‐locked frequency divider
Author(s) -
Chuang YunHsueh,
Jang ShengLyang,
Lee ShaoHwa,
Chiang YeuhHua
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.22604
Subject(s) - frequency divider , phase noise , voltage controlled oscillator , electrical engineering , cmos , engineering , microwave , electronic engineering , power consumption , voltage , quadrature (astronomy) , transistor , power (physics) , physics , telecommunications , quantum mechanics
A new current‐reused injection‐locked frequency divider is proposed to generate quadrature outputs and implemented using the standard UMC 0.18 μm CMOS 1P6M process. The proposed circuit is made of two LC‐tank voltage controlled oscillators (VCOs) stacked in series and the VCOs are coupled with the coupling transistors to generate quadrature signals. The direct injection‐locked technique is applied to the VCO to perform a divide by two functions, so that the quadrature circuit can provide low phase noise signal. At the 1.8 V supply voltage, the free running frequency of proposed circuit operates from 2.3 to 2.63 GHz and provides 1 GHz locking from 4.43 to 5.43 GHz. The power consumption is 7.4 mW with 4.1 mA current consumption. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 49: 1804–1806, 2007; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.22604