i ABSTRACT Voltage Control Oscillator (VCO) is one of the most critical blocks in Phase Lock Loops (PLLs). LC-tank VCOs have a superior phase noise performance, however they require bulky passive resonators and often calibration architectures to overcome their limited tuning range. Ring oscillator (RO) based VCOs are attractive for digital technology applications owing to their ease of integrat...

This paper presents a low-phase-noise LC voltage-controlled oscillator (LC-VCO) with top resistive biasing in subthreshold region. The subthreshold LC-VCO has low-power and low-phase-noise due to its high transconductance efficiency and low gate bias condition. The top resistive biasing has more benefit with the feature of phase noise than MOS current source since it can support the low-noise c...

A DTG receiver group seminar on DVB-T receiver performance was held at BBC R&D at Kingswood Warren on Friday 6th February 1998. At this seminar, it was agreed that in addition to front end noise figure, an important parameter in receiver design was the receiver noise floor, Px. Measurement of receiver noise floor is a difficult challenge. There are no direct methods of measuring the overall val...

This paper presents a methodology to determine all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) circuit variables based on required design specifications, including output phase noise, fractional spur and locking time. An analytical model is developed to characterize the effects of different noise sources on ADPLL output phase noise and fractional spur. Applying the proposed noise model, circuit variables...

Our work is focused on the investigation of an influence of an additive thermal noise and a multiplicative phase noise in space communication chains. The most important properties of both noise types are summarized. The main concern of this paper is on the multiplicative phase noise that is especially important in systems with the phase shift keying. The simulation procedure for modeling of a s...

Title of dissertation: LOW PHASE NOISE CMOS PLL FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZER DESIGN AND ANALYSIS Xinhua He, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Dissertation directed by: Professor Robert Newcomb Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The phase-locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesizer is a critical device of wireless transceivers. It works as a local oscillator (LO) for frequency translation and chann...

This thesis describes an investigation of the perfomlance of binary differential phase shift keying (DPSK) modulation in an optical heterodyne communication system when both laser phase noise and shot noise are present. The laser phase noise is modelled as a Brownian motion process while the shot noise is modelled by additive white Gaussian noise. Four different receiver structures are consider...

There have beem many studies on the analysis and design of low-noise oscillators. Recently, much attention has been paid to the noise reduction technique using coupled oscillators. When oscillators are coupled, the coupling method is very important and affects various factors, for example, the level of noise. In this study, we analyze the phase noise of multiphase CMOS LC oscillators coupled by...

Thermal test structures and ring oscillators (ROs) are fabricated in 0.18-μm three-dimensional (3-D)–SOI technology. Measurements and electrothermal simulations show that thermal and parasitic effects due to 3-D packaging have a significant impact on circuit performance. A physical thermal model is parameterized to provide better prediction of circuit performance in 3-D technologies. Electrothe...