• Microelectronics
  • Vol. 52, Issue 1, 12 (2022)
LONG Renwei and FENG Quanyuan
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    DOI: 10.13911/j.cnki.1004-3365.210107 Cite this Article
    LONG Renwei, FENG Quanyuan. Design of a Low-Voltage Low-Power Pseudo-Differential Ring VCO[J]. Microelectronics, 2022, 52(1): 12 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    A low-voltage low-power CMOS ring oscillator with pseudo-differential structure was designed in the TSMC 28 nm CMOS process, which included oscillator’s bias circuit, ring oscillator and output buffer. The pseudo-differential ring oscillator utilized a five-stage delay unit with a Maneatis symmetrical load to improve the VCO’s tuning linearity and tuning range. Pre-simulation on Cadence Spectre showed that when the VCO was operating at 0.9 V supply voltage, the frequency tuning range was 0.65 GHz to 4.12 GHz. The tuning linearity was excellent in the most area of tuning range. With a center frequency of about 2.3 GHz, the phase noise was -79.06 dBc/Hz@1 MHz. The output buffer stage enabled the rail-to-rail output swing and the duty ratio of 50%. The power consumption of the ring oscillator was approximately 5.7 mW.
    LONG Renwei, FENG Quanyuan. Design of a Low-Voltage Low-Power Pseudo-Differential Ring VCO[J]. Microelectronics, 2022, 52(1): 12
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