A Low-Jitter Area-Efficient LC-VCO Based Clock Generator in 0.13-µm CMOS

This letter presents an ultra low-jitter clock generator that employs an area-efficient LC-VCO. In order to fully utilize the area of the on-chip inductor, the loop filter of a phase locked loop (PLL) is located underneath the inductor. A prototype chip implemented in 0.13 μm CMOS process achieves 105 MHz to 225 MHz of clock frequency while consuming 4.2 mW from 1.2 V supply. The measured rms jitter and normalized rms jitter of the proposed clock generator are 2.8 ps and 0.031% at 105 MHz, respectively. key words: clock generator, LC-VCO, area-efficient LC-VCO