This paper presents a low-power small-area digitally controlled oscillator （DCO） using an inverters interlaced cascaded delay cell （IICDC）. It uses a coarse-fine architecture with binary-weighted delay stages for ...This paper presents a low-power small-area digitally controlled oscillator （DCO） using an inverters interlaced cascaded delay cell （IICDC）. It uses a coarse-fine architecture with binary-weighted delay stages for the delay range and resolution. The coarse-tuning stage of the DCO uses IICDC, which is power and area efficient with low phase noise, as compared with conventional delay cells. The ADPLL with a DCO is fabricated in the UMC 180-nm CMOS process with an active area of 0.071 mm2. The output frequency range is 140-600 MHz at the power supply of 1.8 V. The power consumption is 2.34 mW@ a 200 MHz output.展开更多
文摘This paper presents a low-power small-area digitally controlled oscillator （DCO） using an inverters interlaced cascaded delay cell （IICDC）. It uses a coarse-fine architecture with binary-weighted delay stages for the delay range and resolution. The coarse-tuning stage of the DCO uses IICDC, which is power and area efficient with low phase noise, as compared with conventional delay cells. The ADPLL with a DCO is fabricated in the UMC 180-nm CMOS process with an active area of 0.071 mm2. The output frequency range is 140-600 MHz at the power supply of 1.8 V. The power consumption is 2.34 mW@ a 200 MHz output.
