scholarly journals A 17.8–34.8 GHz (64.6%) Locking Range Current-Reuse Injection-Locked Frequency Multiplier with Dual Injection Technique

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 1122
Author(s):  
Kwang-Il Oh ◽  
Goo-Han Ko ◽  
Gwang-Sub Kim ◽  
Jeong-Geun Kim ◽  
Donghyun Baek

A 17.8–34.8 GHz (64.6%) locking range current-reuse injection-locked frequency multiplier (CR-ILFM) with dual injection technique is presented in this paper. A dual injection technique is applied to generate differential signal and increase the power of the second-order harmonic component. The CR core is proposed to reduce the power consumption and compatibility with NMOS and PMOS injectors. The inductor-capacitor (LC) tank of the proposed CR-ILFM is designed with a fourth-order resonator using a transformer with distributed inductor to extend the locking range. The self-oscillated frequency of the proposed CR-ILFM is 23.82 GHz. The output frequency locking range is 17.8–34.8 GHz (64.6%) at a 0-dBm injection power without any additional control including supply voltage, varactor, and capacitor bank. The power consumption of the proposed CR-ILFM is 7.48 mW from a 1-V supply voltage and the die size is 0.75 mm × 0.45 mm. The CR-ILFM is implemented in a 65-nm CMOS technology.

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 2551
Author(s):  
Kwang-Il Oh ◽  
Goo-Han Ko ◽  
Jeong-Geun Kim ◽  
Donghyun Baek

An 18.8–33.9 GHz, 2.26 mW current-reuse (CR) injection-locked frequency divider (ILFD) for radar sensor applications is presented in this paper. A fourth-order resonator is designed using a transformer with a distributed inductor for wideband operating of the ILFD. The CR core is employed to reduce the power consumption compared to conventional cross-coupled pair ILFDs. The targeted input center frequency is 24 GHz for radar application. The self-oscillated frequency of the proposed CR-ILFD is 14.08 GHz. The input frequency locking range is from 18.8 to 33.8 GHz (57%) at an injection power of 0 dBm without a capacitor bank or varactors. The proposed CR-ILFD consumes 2.26 mW of power from a 1 V supply voltage. The entire die size is 0.75 mm × 0.45 mm. This CR-ILFD is implemented in a 65 nm complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology.


Author(s):  
Kwang-Il Oh ◽  
Goo-Han Ko ◽  
Jeong-Geun Kim ◽  
Donghyun Baek

An 18.8–33.9-GHz, 2.26-mW current-reuse (CR) injection-locked frequency divider (ILFD) for radar sensor applications is presented in this paper. A fourth-order resonator is designed using a transformer with a distributed inductor for wideband operating of the ILFD. The CR core is employed to reduce the power consumption compared to conventional cross-coupled pair ILFDs. The targeted input center frequency is 24 GHz for radar application. The self-oscillated frequency of the proposed CR-ILFD is 14.08 GHz. The input frequency locking range is from 18.8 to 33.8 GHz (57%) at an injection power of 0 dBm without a capacitor bank or varactors. The proposed CR-ILFD consumes 2.26 mW of power from a 1-V supply voltage. The entire die size is 0.75 mm ´ 0.45 mm. This CR-ILFD is implemented in a 65-nm CMOS technology.


2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (03) ◽  
pp. 487-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
VINCENZO STORNELLI ◽  
GIUSEPPE FERRI ◽  
KING PACE

This work presents a single chip integrated pulse generator-modulator to be utilized in a short range wireless radio sensors remote control applications. The circuit, which can generate single pulses, modulated in BPSK, OOK, PAM, and also PPM, has been developed in a standard CMOS technology (AMS 0.35 μm). Typical pulse duration is about 1 ns while pulse repetition frequency is until 200 MHz (5 ns "chip" time). The operating supply voltage is ± 2.5 V, while the whole power consumption is about 15 mW. Post-layout parametric and corner analyses have confirmed the theoretical expectations.


2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 1750184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiuzhen Wan ◽  
Jun Dong ◽  
Hui Zhou ◽  
Fei Yu

In this paper, a very low power modified current-reused quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator (QVCO) is proposed with the back-gate coupling technique for the quadrature signal generation. By stacking switching transistors in series like a cascode, the modified current-reused QVCO can be constructed in a totem-pole manner to reuse the dc biasing current and lower the power consumption. By utilizing the back-gates of switching transistors as coupling terminals to achieve the quadrature outputs, the back-gate coupled QVCO improves the phase noise and reduces the power consumption compared to the conventional coupling transistor based topology. Together with the modified current-reuse and back-gate coupling techniques, the proposed QVCO can operate at reduced supply voltage and power consumption while maintaining remarkable circuit performance in terms of low phase noise and wide tuning range. With a dc power of 1.6[Formula: see text]mW under a 0.8[Formula: see text]V supply voltage, the simulation results show the tuning range of the QVCO is from 2.36 to 3.04[Formula: see text]GHz as the tuning voltage is varied from 0.8 to 0.0[Formula: see text]V. The phase noise is [Formula: see text]118.3[Formula: see text]dBc/Hz at 1[Formula: see text]MHz offset frequency from the carrier frequency of 2.36[Formula: see text]GHz and the corresponding figure-of-merit of the QVCO is [Formula: see text]183.7[Formula: see text]dBc/Hz.


Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 2033
Author(s):  
Ahmed Elgreatly ◽  
Ahmed Dessouki ◽  
Hassan Mostafa ◽  
Rania Abdalla ◽  
El-sayed El-Rabaie

Time-based analog-to-digital converter is considered a crucial part in the design of software-defined radio receivers for its higher performance than other analog-to-digital converters in terms of operation speed, input dynamic range and power consumption. In this paper, two novel voltage-to-time converters are proposed at which the input voltage signal is connected to the body terminal of the starving transistor rather than its gate terminal. These novel converters exhibit better linearity, which is analytically proven in this paper. The maximum linearity error is reduced to 0.4%. In addition, the input dynamic range of these converters is increased to 800 mV for a supply voltage of 1.2 V by using industrial hardware-calibrated TSMC 65 nm CMOS technology. These novel designs consist of only a single inverter stage, which results in reducing the layout area and the power consumption. The overall power consumption is 18 μW for the first proposed circuit and 15 μW for the second proposed circuit. The novel converter circuits have a resolution of 5 bits and operate at a maximum clock frequency of 500 MHz.


2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (10) ◽  
pp. 1340033 ◽  
Author(s):  
HONGLIANG ZHAO ◽  
YIQIANG ZHAO ◽  
YIWEI SONG ◽  
JUN LIAO ◽  
JUNFENG GENG

A low power readout integrated circuit (ROIC) for 512 × 512 cooled infrared focal plane array (IRFPA) is presented. A capacitive trans-impedance amplifier (CTIA) with high gain cascode amplifier and inherent correlated double sampling (CDS) configuration is employed to achieve a high performance readout interface for the IRFPA with a pixel size of 30 × 30 μm2. By optimizing column readout timing and using two operating modes in column amplifiers, the power consumption is significantly reduced. The readout chip is implemented in a standard 0.35 μm 2P4M CMOS technology. The measurement results show the proposed ROIC achieves a readout rate of 10 MHz with 70 mW power consumption under 3.3 V supply voltage from 77 K to 150 K operating temperature. And it occupies a chip area of 18.4 × 17.5 mm2.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nandini Vitee ◽  
Harikrishnan Ramiah ◽  
Wei-Keat Chong ◽  
Gim-Heng Tan ◽  
Jeevan Kanesan ◽  
...  

A low-power wideband mixer is designed and implemented in 0.13 µm standard CMOS technology based on resistive feedback current-reuse (RFCR) configuration for the application of cognitive radio receiver. The proposed RFCR architecture incorporates an inductive peaking technique to compensate for gain roll-off at high frequency while enhancing the bandwidth. A complementary current-reuse technique is used between transconductance and IF stages to boost the conversion gain without additional power consumption by reusing the DC bias current of the LO stage. This downconversion double-balanced mixer exhibits a high and flat conversion gain (CG) of 14.9 ± 1.4 dB and a noise figure (NF) better than 12.8 dB. The maximum input 1-dB compression point (P1dB) and maximum input third-order intercept point (IIP3) are −13.6 dBm and −4.5 dBm, respectively, over the desired frequency ranging from 50 MHz to 10 GHz. The proposed circuit operates down to a supply headroom of 1 V with a low-power consumption of 3.5 mW.


2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (14) ◽  
pp. 1850230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samaneh Babayan-Mashhadi ◽  
Mona Jahangiri-Khah

As power consumption is one of the major issues in biomedical implantable devices, in this paper, a novel quantization method is proposed for successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) which can save 80% power consumption in contrast to conventional structure for electroencephalogram (EEG) signal recording systems. According to the characteristics of neural signals, the principle of the proposed power saving technique was inspired such that only the difference between current input sample and the previous one is quantized, using a power efficient SAR ADC with fewer resolutions. To verify the proposed quantization scheme, the ADC is systematically modeled in Matlab and designed and simulated in circuit level using 0.18[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]m CMOS technology. When applied to neural signal acquisition, spice simulations show that at sampling rate of 25[Formula: see text]kS/s, the proposed 8-bit ADC consumes 260[Formula: see text]nW of power from 1.8[Formula: see text]V supply voltage while achieving 7.1 effective number of bits.


2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raushan Kumar ◽  
Sahadev Roy ◽  
C.T. Bhunia

Abstract In this paper, we proposed an efficient full adder circuit using 16 transistors. The proposed high-speed adder circuit is able to operate at very low voltage and maintain the proper output voltage swing and also balance the power consumption and speed. Proposed design is based on CMOS mixed threshold voltage logic (MTVL) and implemented in 180nm CMOS technology. In the proposed technique the most time-consuming and power consuming XOR gates and multiplexer are designed using MTVL scheme. The maximum average power consumed by the proposed circuit is 6.94μW at 1.8V supply voltage and frequency of 500 MHz, which is less than other conventional methods. Power, delay, and area are optimized by using pass transistor logic and verified using the SPICE simulation tool at desired broad frequency range. It is also observed that the proposed design may be successfully utilized in many cases, especially whenever the lowest power consumption and delay are aimed.


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