scholarly journals Design of Power Efficient Phase Frequency Detector and Voltage Controlled Oscillator for PLL Applications in 45 nm CMOS Technology

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 184-197
Author(s):  
Pawan Srivastava ◽  
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Dr. Ram Chandra Singh Chauhan ◽  

A novel phase frequency detector is designed which is made up of 16 transistors whereas conventional is of 48 transistors. This paper also presented the design of charge pump circuit and current starved VCO (CSVCO). These are the critical blocks that are widely used for applications like clock and data recovery circuit, PLL, frequency synthesizer. The proposed PFD eliminates the reset circuit using pass transistor logic and operates effectively at higher frequencies. The circuits are designed using Cadence Virtuoso v6.1 in 45nm CMOS technology having supply voltage 1V. It was found that the power consumption of PFD is 138.2 nW which is significantly lesser than other designs. CSVCO also analysed at operating frequency of 10 MHz to give output oscillation frequency of 1.119 GHz with power dissipation of 18.91 μW. Corner analysis done for both the PFD and CSVCO for various process variations. Monte Carlo analysis also done for the proposed PFD and presented CSVCO to test the circuit reliableness.

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-328
Author(s):  
Dan-Dan Zheng ◽  
Yu-Bin Li ◽  
Chang-Qi Wang ◽  
Kai Huang ◽  
Xiao-Peng Yu

Abstract In this paper, an area and power efficient current mode frequency synthesizer for system-on-chip (SoC) is proposed. A current-mode transformer loop filter suitable for low supply voltage is implemented to remove the need of a large capacitor in the loop filter, and a current controlled oscillator with additional voltage based frequency tuning mechanism is designed with an active inductor. The proposed design is further integrated with a fully programmable frequency divider to maintain a good balance among output frequency operating range, power consumption as well as silicon area. A test chip is implemented in a standard 0.13 µm CMOS technology, measurement result demonstrates that the proposed design has a working range from 916 MHz to 1.1 l GHz and occupies a silicon area of 0.25 mm2 while consuming 8.4 mW from a 1.2 V supply.


Author(s):  
AJIT SAMASGIKAR

A low phase noise, power efficient VCO using UMC 0.18μm CMOS technology has been proposed in this paper. The proposed VCO has a tuning range of 9.71GHz to 9.9GHz, with a phase noise of -79.88 dBc/Hz @ 600kHz offset. The Vtune ranging between 1V - 1.5V generates sustained oscillations. The maximum power consumption of the VCO is 11.9mW using a supply voltage of 1.8V with ±10% variation.


Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1502
Author(s):  
Waseem Abbas ◽  
Zubair Mehmood ◽  
Munkyo Seo

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.


2006 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 287-291
Author(s):  
S. Tontisirin ◽  
R. Tielert

Abstract. A Gb/s clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit using 1/4th-rate digital quadricorrelator frequency detector and skew-calibrated multi-phase voltage-controlled oscillator is presented. With 1/4th-rate clock architecture, the coil-free oscillator can have lower operation frequency providing sufficient low-jitter operation. Moreover, it is an inherent 1-to-4 DEMUX. The skew calibration scheme is applied to reduce phase offset in multi-phase clock generator. The CDR with frequency detector can have small loop bandwidth, wide pull-in range and can operate without the need for a local reference clock. This 1/4th-rate CDR is implemented in standard 0.18 μm CMOS technology. It has an active area of 0.7 mm2 and consumes 100 mW at 1.8 V supply. The CDR has low jitter operation in a wide frequency range from 1–2.25 Gb/s. Measurement of Bit-Error Rate is less than 10−12 for 2.25 Gb/s incoming data 27−1 PRBS, jitter peak-to-peak of 0.7 unit interval (UI) modulation at 10 MHz.


2013 ◽  
Vol 385-386 ◽  
pp. 1278-1281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zheng Fei Hu ◽  
Ying Mei Chen ◽  
Shao Jia Xue

A 25-Gb/s clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit with 1:2 demultiplexer which incorporates a quadrature LC voltage-controlled-oscillator and a half-rate bang-bang phase detector is presented in this paper. A quadrature LC VCO is presented to generate the four-phase output clocks. A half-rate phase detector including four flip-flops samples the 25-Gb/s input data every 20 ps and alignes the data phase. The 25-Gb/s data are retimed and demultiplexed into two 12.5-Gb/s output data. The CDR is designed in TSMC 65nm CMOS Technology. Simulation results show that the recovered clock exhibits a peak-to-peak jitter of 0.524ps and the recovered data exhibits a peak-to-peak jitter of 1.2ps. The CDR circuit consumes 121 mW from a 1.2 V supply.


2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (08) ◽  
pp. 2050130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jagdeep Kaur Sahani ◽  
Anil Singh ◽  
Alpana Agarwal

A fast phase frequency detector (PFD) and low gain low phase noise voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO)-based phase-locked loop (PLL) design are presented in this paper. PLL works in the frequency range of 0.025–1.6[Formula: see text]GHz, targeting various SoC applications. The proposed PFD, designed using CMOS dynamic logic, is fast and improves the locking time, dead zone and blind zone in the PLL. The standard CMOS inverter gate-based pseudo differential VCO is used in the PLL. Also, CMOS inverter is used as variable capacitor to tune the frequency of VCO with control voltage. The proposed PLL is designed in a 180[Formula: see text]nm CMOS process with supply voltage of 1.8[Formula: see text]V. The phase noise of VCO is [Formula: see text][Formula: see text]dBc/Hz at an offset frequency of 100[Formula: see text]MHz. The reference clock of 25[Formula: see text]MHz synthesizes the output clock of 1.6[Formula: see text]GHz with rms jitter of 0.642[Formula: see text]ps.


Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Youming Zhang ◽  
Xusheng Tang ◽  
Zhennan Wei ◽  
Kaiye Bao ◽  
Nan Jiang

This paper presents a Ku-band fractional-N frequency synthesizer with adaptive loop bandwidth control (ALBC) to speed up the lock settling process and meanwhile ensure better phase noise and spur performance. The theoretical analysis and circuits implementation are discussed in detail. Other key modules of the frequency synthesizer such as broadband voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) with auto frequency calibration (AFC) and programable frequency divider/charge pump/loop filter are designed for integrity and flexible configuration. The proposed frequency synthesizer is fabricated in 0.13 μm CMOS technology occupying 1.14 × 1.18 mm2 area including ESD/IOs and pads, and the area of the ALBC is only 55 × 76 μm2. The out frequency can cover from 11.37 GHz to 14.8 GHz with a frequency tuning range (FTR) of 26.2%. The phase noise is −112.5 dBc/Hz @ 1 MHz and −122.4 dBc/Hz @ 3 MHz at 13 GHz carrier frequency. Thanks to the proposed ALBC, the lock-time can be shortened by about 30% from about 36 μs to 24 μs. The chip area and power consumption of the proposed ALBC technology are slight, but the beneficial effect is significant.


This paper proposes design and implementation of low power Delay Locked Loop Architecture, with dynamic Multiplexer based Phase Frequency Detector with minimum locking time. Clock and data recovery systems are employed to derive the clocking information to correctly decode the transmitted data at the receiver. Delay Locked Loop is one of the most important clock recovery systems. The DLL architecture is designed using Cadence Virtuoso 180nm Technology with 1.8V power supply. The proposed DLL with Multiplexer based phase frequency detector shows significant reduction in power dissipation by 10% compared to DLL designed using D-FF based PFD and achieves locking state within 10 clock cycles with minimum jitter of 4.84326ps, measured within clock frequency range of 100-250MHz.


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