A portable high-frequency digitally controlled oscillator (DCO)

Muhammad E.S. Elrabaa

doi:10.1145/2483028.2483065

A portable high-frequency digitally controlled oscillator (DCO)

Muhammad E.S. Elrabaa^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A novel digitally-controlled oscillator (DCO) is reported. Utilizing a new capacitive load, the new DCO is capable of producing much higher output frequencies than existing DCOs. All other components are fully digital and modular, allowing portability to any CMOS process and customization for different applications. At the heart of the DCO is a digital ring oscillator (DRO) that utilizes the new shunt-capacitive loads. Unprecedented higher frequencies are obtained through a novel idea of electrically removing the effect of un-enabled loads. Simple design conditions for achieving proper operation of the DRO are provided. Spice simulations verified the correct and superior operation of the DCO even with device mismatch. A custom layout of the DRO was generated using LFoundry's 150 nm technology. The total DRO area was found to be 418 μm².

Original language	English
Title of host publication	GLSVLSI 2013 - Proceedings of the ACM International Conference of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI
Pages	77-82
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2483028.2483065
State	Published - 2013

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Name	Proceedings of the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, GLSVLSI

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology Through Development Grant 4-14/2010 . Also, facilities support by King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals is highly appreciated by the authors.

Keywords

digital circuits
digitally-controlled oscillator (dco)
systems-on-chip (socs)

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