scholarly journals Design and Implementation of High Frequency and Low-Power Phase-locked Loop

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 70-86
Author(s):  
Premananda B. S. ◽  
Dhanush T. N. ◽  
Vaishnavi S. Parashar ◽  
D. Aneesh Bharadwaj
Keyword(s):  
Power Consumption ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Supply Voltage ◽  
Phase Locked Loop ◽  
Voltage Controlled Oscillator ◽  
Switching Rate ◽  
Loop Filter ◽  
Capture Range ◽  
Frequency Detector ◽  
Reduced Power Consumption

Phase-locked loop (PLL) operates at a high frequency and due to the increased switching rate of the circuits, the power consumption is high. Designing a PLL which consumes less power without compromising the frequency of operation is essential. The sub-components of PLL such as the phase frequency detector, charge pump, loop filter, voltage-controlled oscillator, and the frequency divider have to be designed for reduced power consumption. The proposed PLL along with its sub-components have been designed using the CMOS 180nm technology library in the Cadence Virtuoso and simulated using Cadence Spectre with a supply voltage of 1.8V resulting in a 20% reduction in power with a higher frequency of operation compared to the reference PLL architecture. The capture range and lock range of the proposed PLL are 2.09 to 2.14 GHz and 1 to 3.5GHz, respectively. The designed PLL consumes less power and operates at a higher frequency.

scholarly journals Design of High frequency Voltage Controlled Oscillators for Phase Locked Loop

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.12) ◽  
pp. 871
Author(s):  
Thejusraj. H ◽  
Prithivi Raj ◽  
J Selvakumar ◽  
S Praveen Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Power Consumption ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Phase Locked Loop ◽  
Clock Recovery ◽  
Ring Oscillator ◽  
Voltage Controlled Oscillator ◽  
Voltage Controlled Oscillators ◽  
Clock Generation ◽  
Consumption Values

This paper presents the analysis of various oscillators that generate high frequency of oscillation for high speed communication, clock generation and clock recovery. The Ring oscillator and the Current Starved Voltage Controlled Oscillator(CSVCO) (for 5-stagewithout resistor and with resistor) have been implemented using the Cadence Virtuoso tool in 90 nm technology. The generated frequency of oscillation and the power consumption values of the voltage controlled oscillators have been calculated after inclusion in the PLL, and were also compared to identify the most suitable voltage controlled oscillator for a given application.

scholarly journals Memristor-Based Loop Filter Design for Phase Locked Loop

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naheem Olakunle Adesina ◽  
Ashok Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Power Consumption ◽  
Filter Design ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Phase Locked Loop ◽  
Voltage Controlled Oscillator ◽  
Loop Filter ◽  
Silicon Area ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
A Charge ◽  
Basic Features

The main challenge in designing a loop filter for a phase locked loop (PLL) is the physical dimensions of the passive elements used in the circuit that occupy large silicon area. In this paper, the basic features of a charge-controlled memristor are studied and the design procedures for various components of a PLL are examined. Following this, we propose a memristor-based filter design which has its resistance being replaced by a memristor in order to reduce the die area and achieve a low power consumption. We obtained a tuning range of 741–994 MHz, a stable output frequency of 1 GHz from the transfer characteristics of voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), and an improved settling time. In addition to reduced power consumption and area occupied on the chip, our design shows a high reliability over wider range of temperature variations.

scholarly journals A V-Band Phase-Locked Loop with a Novel Phase-Frequency Detector in 65 nm CMOS

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1502
Author(s):  
Waseem Abbas ◽  
Zubair Mehmood ◽  
Munkyo Seo
Keyword(s):  
Frequency Synthesizer ◽  
Dead Zone ◽  
Phase Locked Loop ◽  
Voltage Controlled Oscillator ◽  
Loop Filter ◽  
Phase Frequency Detector ◽  
Chip Area ◽  
V Band ◽  
Locking Range ◽  
Frequency Detector

A 65–67 GHz phase-locked loop (PLL) with a novel low power phase-frequency detector (PFD) in 65 nm LP CMOS is presented. The PLL consists of a V-band voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), a divide-by-two injection-locked frequency divider (ILFD), and a current-mode logic (CML) divider chain. A charge pump (CP) and a 2nd-order loop filter are used with PFD for VCO tuning. The PFD is implemented with 16 transistors with dead-zone-free capability. The measured locking range of the PLL is from 65.15 to 67.4 GHz, with −11.5 dBm measured output power at 66.05 GHz while consuming 88 mW. The measured phase noise at 1 MHz offset is −84.43 dBc/Hz. The chip area of the PLL is 0.84 mm2 including probing pads. The proposed PLL can be utilized as a frequency synthesizer for carrier signal generation in IEEE 802.11ad standard high data rate transceiver circuits.

A LOW-VOLTAGE LOW-POWER CMOS PHASE-LOCKED LOOP

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (05) ◽  
pp. 997-1006 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT C. CHANG ◽  
LUNG-CHIH KUO ◽  
HOU-MING CHEN
Keyword(s):  
Low Power ◽  
Low Voltage ◽  
Supply Voltage ◽  
Charge Pump ◽  
Phase Locked Loop ◽  
Loop Filter ◽  
Phase Frequency Detector ◽  
Low Power Cmos ◽  
Charge Pump Circuit ◽  
Frequency Detector

A low-voltage low-power CMOS phase-locked loop (PLL) is presented in this paper. It consists of a phase frequency detector, a charge pump, a loop filter, a voltage-control oscillator, and a frequency divider. A new phase frequency detector is proposed to reduce the dead zone and the mismatch effect of the charge pump circuit. A novel charge pump circuit with a small area and wide output range is described. The PLL circuit has been designed using the TSMC 0.35 μm 1P4M CMOS technology. The chip area is 1.08 mm × 1.01 mm. The post-layout simulation results show that the frequency of 900 MHz can be generated with a single supply voltage of 1.5 V. The power dissipation of the circuit is 9.17 mW.

Design and analysis of a low noise CMOS charge pump phase locked loop circuit

2021 ◽  
pp. 2140002
Author(s):  
Yanbo Chen ◽  
Shubin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Phase Noise ◽  
Supply Voltage ◽  
Charge Pump ◽  
Phase Locked Loop ◽  
Low Noise ◽  
Cmos Process ◽  
Voltage Controlled Oscillator ◽  
Output Frequency ◽  
Power Supply Voltage ◽  
Supply Noise

Phase Locked Loop (PLL) circuit plays an important part in electronic communication system in providing high-frequency clock, recovering the clock from data signal and so on. The performance of PLL affects the whole system. As the frequency of PLL increases, designing a PLL circuit with lower jitter and phase noise becomes a big challenge. To suppress the phase noise, the optimization of Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) is very important. As the power supply voltage degrades, the VCO becomes more sensitive to supply noise. In this work, a three-stage feedforward ring VCO (FRVCO) is designed and analyzed to increase the output frequency. A novel supply-noise sensing (SNS) circuit is proposed to suppress the supply noise’s influence on output frequency. Based on these, a 1.2 V 2 GHz PLL circuit is implemented in 110 nm CMOS process. The phase noise of this CMOS charge pump (CP) PLL is 117 dBc/Hz@1 MHz from test results which proves it works successfully in suppressing phase noise.

Ground-Adjustable Inductor for Wide-Tuning VCO Design

2012 ◽  
Vol 256-259 ◽  
pp. 2373-2378
Author(s):  
Wu Shiung Feng ◽  
Chin I Yeh ◽  
Ho Hsin Li ◽  
Cheng Ming Tsao
Keyword(s):  
Power Consumption ◽  
Tuning Range ◽  
Supply Voltage ◽  
Wide Band ◽  
Ultra Wide Band ◽  
Cmos Process ◽  
Voltage Controlled Oscillator ◽  
Wide Tuning Range ◽  
Chip Area ◽  
Ground Plate

A wide-tuning range voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) with adjustable ground-plate inductor for ultra-wide band (UWB) application is presented in this paper. The VCO was implemented by standard 90nm CMOS process at 1.2V supply voltage and power consumption of 6mW. The tuning range from 13.3 GHz to 15.6 GHz with phase noise between -99.98 and -115dBc/Hz@1MHz is obtained. The output power is around -8.7 to -9.6dBm and chip area of 0.77x0.62mm2.

A Very Low Power Quadrature VCO with Modified Current-Reuse and Back-Gate Coupling Topology

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 1750184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiuzhen Wan ◽  
Jun Dong ◽  
Hui Zhou ◽  
Fei Yu
Keyword(s):  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Phase Noise ◽  
Tuning Range ◽  
Supply Voltage ◽  
Voltage Controlled Oscillator ◽  
Back Gate ◽  
Current Reuse ◽  
Quadrature Vco ◽  
In Series

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.

Design of High Gain Folded Cascode OTA-Based Transconductance–Capacitance Loop Filter for PLL Applications

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150263
Author(s):  
Priti Gupta ◽  
Sanjay Kumar Jana
Keyword(s):  
Power Consumption ◽  
Supply Voltage ◽  
High Gain ◽  
Cmos Process ◽  
Operational Transconductance Amplifier ◽  
Loop Filter ◽  
Transconductance Amplifier ◽  
Dc Gain ◽  
Unity Gain ◽  
Folded Cascode

This paper deals with the designing of low-power transconductance–capacitance-based loop filter. The folded cascode-based operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) is designed in this paper with the help of quasi-floating bulk MOSFET that achieved the DC gain of 88.61[Formula: see text]dB, unity gain frequency of 97.86[Formula: see text]MHz and power consumption of 430.62[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]W. The proposed OTA is compared with the exiting OTA structure which showed 19.50% increase in DC gain and 15.11% reduction in power consumption. Further, the proposed OTA is used for the designing of transconductance–capacitance-based loop filter that has been operated at [Formula: see text]3[Formula: see text]dB cut-off frequency of 30.12[Formula: see text]MHz with the power consumption of 860.90[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]W at the supply voltage of [Formula: see text][Formula: see text]V. The transistor-level simulation has been done in 0.18[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]m CMOS process.

Analysis and Design of High Performance Phase Frequency Detector, Charge Pump and Loop Filter Circuits for Phase Locked Loop in Wireless Applications

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 397
Author(s):  
P.N. Metange ◽  
K. B. Khanchandani
Keyword(s):  
Leakage Current ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Charge Pump ◽  
Phase Locked Loop ◽  
Loop Filter ◽  
Phase Frequency Detector ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Wireless Applications ◽  
5 Ghz ◽  
Frequency Detector

<p>This paper presents the analysis and design of high performance phase frequency detector, charge pump and loop filter circuits for phase locked loop in wireless applications. The proposed phase frequency detector (PFD) consumes only 8 µW and utilises small area. Also, at 1.8V voltage supply the maximum operation frequency of the conventional PFD is 500 MHz whereas proposed PFD is 5 GHz. Hence, highly suitable for low power, high speed and low jitter applications.  The differential charge pump uses switches using NMOS and the inverter delays for up and down signals do not generate any offset due to its fully symmetric operation. This configuration doubles the range of output voltage compliance compared to single ended charge pump. Differential stage is less sensitive to the leakage current since leakage current behaves as common mode offset with the dual output stages. All the circuits are implemented using cadence 0.18 μm CMOS Process.</p>

scholarly journals Power Efficient, Low Noise 2-5 GHz Phase Locked Loop

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 66-72
Author(s):  
V.Sh. Melikyan ◽  
A.A. Durgaryan ◽  
H.P. Petrosyan ◽  
A.G. Stepanyan
Keyword(s):  
Power Consumption ◽  
Efficient Solution ◽  
Phase Locked Loop ◽  
Low Noise ◽  
System Level ◽  
Voltage Controlled Oscillator ◽  
Power Efficient ◽  
Area Overhead ◽  
Output Noise ◽  
5 Ghz

A power and noise efficient solution for phase locked loop (PLL) is presented. A lock detector is implemented to deactivate the PLL components, except the voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), in the locked state. Signals deactivating/activating the PLL are discussed on system level. The introduced technique significantly saves power and decreases PLL output jitter. As a result whole PLL power consumption and output noise decreased about 35-38% in expense of approximately 17% area overhead

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