44 research outputs found
Inductorless Frequency Synthesizers for Low-Cost Wireless
AbstractThe quest for ubiquitous wireless connectivity, drives an increasing demand for compact and efficient means of frequency generation. Conventional synthesizer options, however, generally trade one requirement for the other, achieving either excellent levels of efficiency by leveraging LC-oscillators, or a very compact area by relying on ring-oscillators. This chapter describes a recently introduced class of inductorless frequency synthesizers, based on the periodic realignment of a ring-oscillator, that have the potential to break this tradeoff. After analyzing their jitter-power product, the conditions that ensure optimum performance are derived and a novel digital-to-time converter range-reduction technique is introduced, to enable low-jitter and low-power fractional-N frequency synthesis. A prototype, which implements the proposed design guidelines and techniques, has been fabricated in 65 nm CMOS. It occupies a core area of 0:0275 mm
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and covers the 1:6-to-3:0 GHz range, achieving an absolute rms jitter (integrated from 30 kHz-to-30 MHz) of 397 fs at 2:5 mW power. With a corresponding jitter-power figure-of-merit of โ244 dB in the fractional-N mode, the prototype outperforms prior state-of-the-art inductorless frequency synthesizers
A Programmable Frequency Divider Having a Wide Division Ratio Range, and Close-to-50% Output Duty-Cycle
In Radio Frequency (RF) integrated circuit design field, programmable dividers are getting more and more attentions in recent years. A programmable frequency divider can divide an input frequency by programmable ratios [1]. It is a key component of a frequency synthesizer. It also can be used to generate variable clock-signals for: switched-capacitor filters (SCFs), digital systems with different power-states, as well as multiple clock-signals on the same system-on-a-chip (SOC). These circuits need high performance programmable frequency dividers, operating at high frequencies and having wide division ratio ranges, with binary division ratio controls and 50% output duty-cycle.
Different types of programmable frequency dividers are reviewed and compared. A programmable frequency divider with a wide division ratio range of (8 ~ 524287) has been reported [2]. Because the output duty-cycle of this reported divider is far from 50%, the circuit in [2] has very limited applications. The proposed design solves this problem, without compromising other advantages of the design in [2]. The proposed design is fabricated in a 0.18-ฮผm RF CMOS process. Test results show that the output duty-cycle is 50% when the division ratio is an even number. The duty-cycle is 44.4% when the division ratio is 9. The output duty-cycle becomes closer to 50% when the division ratio is an increasing odd number. For each division ratio, the output duty-cycle remains constant, with different input frequencies from GHz down to kHz ranges, with different temperatures and power supply voltages. This thesis provides an explanation of the design details and test results.
A Phase Locked-Loop (PLL) based frequency synthesizer can generate different output frequencies. A programmable frequency divider is an important component of this type of PLL. Since bandwidth is expensive, it is preferred to reduce the frequency channel distance of a frequency synthesizer. Using a fractional programmable divider, the frequency channel distance of a PLL can be reduced, without reducing the reference frequency or increasing the settling time of the PLL. A frequency synthesizer with a programmable fractional divider is designed and fabricated. A brief description of the PLL design and test results are presented in this dissertation
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๊ณ ์ ์๋ฆฌ์ผ ๋งํฌ๋ฅผ ์ํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ์ง๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ํ๋ ์ฃผํ์ ํฉ์ฑ๊ธฐ
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ผ๋ฌธ(๋ฐ์ฌ) -- ์์ธ๋ํ๊ต๋ํ์ : ๊ณต๊ณผ๋ํ ์ ๊ธฐยท์ ๋ณด๊ณตํ๋ถ, 2022. 8. ์ ๋๊ท .In this dissertation, major concerns in the clocking of modern serial links are discussed. As sub-rate, multi-standard architectures are becoming predominant, the conventional clocking methodology seems to necessitate innovation in terms of low-cost implementation. Frequency synthesis with active, inductor-less oscillators replacing LC counterparts are reviewed, and solutions for two major drawbacks are proposed. Each solution is verified by prototype chip design, giving a possibility that the inductor-less oscillator may become a proper candidate for future high-speed serial links.
To mitigate the high flicker noise of a high-frequency ring oscillator (RO), a reference multiplication technique that effectively extends the bandwidth of the following all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) is proposed. The technique avoids any jitter accumulation, generating a clean mid-frequency clock, overall achieving high jitter performance in conjunction with the ADPLL. Timing constraint for the proper reference multiplication is first analyzed to determine the calibration points that may correct the existent phase errors. The weight for each calibration point is updated by the proposed a priori probability-based least-mean-square (LMS) algorithm. To minimize the time required for the calibration, each gain for the weight update is adaptively varied by deducing a posteriori which error source dominates the others. The prototype chip is fabricated in a 40-nm CMOS technology, and its measurement results verify the low-jitter, high-frequency clock generation with fast calibration settling. The presented work achieves an rms jitter of 177/223 fs at 8/16-GHz output, consuming 12.1/17-mW power.
As the second embodiment, an RO-based ADPLL with an analog technique that addresses the high supply sensitivity of the RO is presented. Unlike prior arts, the circuit for the proposed technique does not extort the RO voltage headroom, allowing high-frequency oscillation. Further, the performance given from the technique is robust over process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) variations, avoiding the use of additional calibration hardware. Lastly, a comprehensive analysis of phase noise contribution is conducted for the overall ADPLL, followed by circuit optimizations, to retain the low-jitter output. Implemented in a 40-nm CMOS technology, the frequency synthesizer achieves an rms jitter of 289 fs at 8 GHz output without any injected supply noise. Under a 20-mVrms white supply noise, the ADPLL suppresses supply-noise-induced jitter by -23.8 dB.๋ณธ ๋
ผ๋ฌธ์ ํ๋ ์๋ฆฌ์ผ ๋งํฌ์ ํด๋ฝํน์ ๊ด์ฌ๋๋ ์ฃผ์ํ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ค์ ๋ํ์ฌ ๊ธฐ์ ํ๋ค. ์ค์๋, ๋ค์ค ํ์ค ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ค์ด ์ฑํ๋๊ณ ์๋ ์ถ์ธ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ, ๊ธฐ์กด์ ํด๋ผํน ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ๋ฎ์ ๋น์ฉ์ ๊ตฌํ์ ๊ด์ ์์ ์๋ก์ด ํ์ ์ ํ์๋ก ํ๋ค. LC ๊ณต์ง๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋์ ํ์ฌ ๋ฅ๋ ์์ ๋ฐ์ง๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฉํ ์ฃผํ์ ํฉ์ฑ์ ๋ํ์ฌ ์์๋ณด๊ณ , ์ด์ ๋ฐ์ํ๋ ๋๊ฐ์ง ์ฃผ์ ๋ฌธ์ ์ ๊ณผ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ ๋ํ ํด๊ฒฐ ๋ฐฉ์์ ํ์ํ๋ค. ๊ฐ ์ ์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ํ๋กํ ํ์
์นฉ์ ํตํด ๊ทธ ํจ์ฉ์ฑ์ ๊ฒ์ฆํ๊ณ , ์ด์ด์ ๋ฅ๋ ์์ ๋ฐ์ง๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ฏธ๋์ ๊ณ ์ ์๋ฆฌ์ผ ๋งํฌ์ ํด๋ฝํน์ ์ฌ์ฉ๋ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ๋ํด ๊ฒํ ํ๋ค.
์ฒซ๋ฒ์งธ ์์ฐ์ผ๋ก์จ, ๊ณ ์ฃผํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ์ง๊ธฐ์ ๋์ ํ๋ฆฌ์ปค ์ก์์ ์ํ์ํค๊ธฐ ์ํด ๊ธฐ์ค ์ ํธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์ํํ์ฌ ๋ท๋จ์ ์์ ๊ณ ์ ๋ฃจํ์ ๋์ญํญ์ ํจ๊ณผ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ทน๋ํ ์ํค๋ ํ๋ก ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ ์ํ๋ค. ๋ณธ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์งํฐ๋ฅผ ๋์ ์ํค์ง ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ๊นจ๋ํ ์ค๊ฐ ์ฃผํ์ ํด๋ฝ์ ์์ฑ์์ผ ์์ ๊ณ ์ ๋ฃจํ์ ํจ๊ป ๋์ ์ฑ๋ฅ์ ๊ณ ์ฃผํ ํด๋ฝ์ ํฉ์ฑํ๋ค. ๊ธฐ์ค ์ ํธ๋ฅผ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐฐ์ํํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ํ์ด๋ฐ ์กฐ๊ฑด๋ค์ ๋จผ์ ๋ถ์ํ์ฌ ํ์ด๋ฐ ์ค๋ฅ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ฑฐํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ๋ก ์ ํ์
ํ๋ค. ๊ฐ ๊ต์ ์ค๋์ ์ฐ์ญ์ ํ๋ฅ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ผ๋กํ LMS ์๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ์ ํตํด ๊ฐฑ์ ๋๋๋ก ์ค๊ณ๋๋ค. ๊ต์ ์ ํ์ํ ์๊ฐ์ ์ต์ํ ํ๊ธฐ ์ํ์ฌ, ๊ฐ ๊ต์ ์ด๋์ ํ์ด๋ฐ ์ค๋ฅ ๊ทผ์๋ค์ ํฌ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ท๋ฉ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ถ๋ก ํ ๊ฐ์ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ์ด๋๋ค. 40-nm CMOS ๊ณต์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ตฌํ๋ ํ๋กํ ํ์
์นฉ์ ์ธก์ ์ ํตํด ์ ์์, ๊ณ ์ฃผํ ํด๋ฝ์ ๋น ๋ฅธ ๊ต์ ์๊ฐ์์ ํฉ์ฑํด ๋์ ํ์ธํ์๋ค. ์ด๋ 177/223 fs์ rms ์งํฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง๋ 8/16 GHz์ ํด๋ฝ์ ์ถ๋ ฅํ๋ค.
๋๋ฒ์งธ ์์ฐ์ผ๋ก์จ, ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ์ง๊ธฐ์ ๋์ ์ ์ ๋
ธ์ด์ฆ ์์กด์ฑ์ ์ํ์ํค๋ ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ํฌํจ๋ ์ฃผํ์ ํฉ์ฑ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ค๊ณ๋์๋ค. ์ด๋ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ์ง๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ ํค๋๋ฃธ์ ๋ณด์กดํจ์ผ๋ก์ ๊ณ ์ฃผํ ๋ฐ์ง์ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๊ฒ ํ๋ค. ๋์๊ฐ, ์ ์ ๋
ธ์ด์ฆ ๊ฐ์ ์ฑ๋ฅ์ ๊ณต์ , ์ ์, ์จ๋ ๋ณ๋์ ๋ํ์ฌ ๋ฏผ๊ฐํ์ง ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ถ๊ฐ์ ์ธ ๊ต์ ํ๋ก๋ฅผ ํ์๋ก ํ์ง ์๋๋ค. ๋ง์ง๋ง์ผ๋ก, ์์ ๋
ธ์ด์ฆ์ ๋ํ ํฌ๊ด์ ๋ถ์๊ณผ ํ๋ก ์ต์ ํ๋ฅผ ํตํ์ฌ ์ฃผํ์ ํฉ์ฑ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ก์ ์ถ๋ ฅ์ ๋ฐฉํดํ์ง ์๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ๊ณ ์ํ์๋ค. ํด๋น ํ๋กํ ํ์
์นฉ์ 40-nm CMOS ๊ณต์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ตฌํ๋์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ ์ ๋
ธ์ด์ฆ๊ฐ ์ธ๊ฐ๋์ง ์์ ์ํ์์ 289 fs์ rms ์งํฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง๋ 8 GHz์ ํด๋ฝ์ ์ถ๋ ฅํ๋ค. ๋ํ, 20 mVrms์ ์ ์ ๋
ธ์ด์ฆ๊ฐ ์ธ๊ฐ๋์์ ๋์ ์ ๋๋๋ ์งํฐ์ ์์ -23.8 dB ๋งํผ ์ค์ด๋ ๊ฒ์ ํ์ธํ์๋ค.1 Introduction 1
1.1 Motivation 3
1.1.1 Clocking in High-Speed Serial Links 4
1.1.2 Multi-Phase, High-Frequency Clock Conversion 8
1.2 Dissertation Objectives 10
2 RO-Based High-Frequency Synthesis 12
2.1 Phase-Locked Loop Fundamentals 12
2.2 Toward All-Digital Regime 15
2.3 RO Design Challenges 21
2.3.1 Oscillator Phase Noise 21
2.3.2 Challenge 1: High Flicker Noise 23
2.3.3 Challenge 2: High Supply Noise Sensitivity 26
3 Filtering RO Noise 28
3.1 Introduction 28
3.2 Proposed Reference Octupler 34
3.2.1 Delay Constraint 34
3.2.2 Phase Error Calibration 38
3.2.3 Circuit Implementation 51
3.3 IL-ADPLL Implementation 55
3.4 Measurement Results 59
3.5 Summary 63
4 RO Supply Noise Compensation 69
4.1 Introduction 69
4.2 Proposed Analog Closed Loop for Supply Noise Compensation 72
4.2.1 Circuit Implementation 73
4.2.2 Frequency-Domain Analysis 76
4.2.3 Circuit Optimization 81
4.3 ADPLL Implementation 87
4.4 Measurement Results 90
4.5 Summary 98
5 Conclusions 99
A Notes on the 8REF 102
B Notes on the ACSC 105๋ฐ
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