In this paper, a nontrivial uncorrelated phase noise analysis is proposed for frequency synthesizer of a passive millimeter-wave Synthetic Aperture Interferometric Radiometer (SAIR) imager named BHU2D-U designed for concealed weapon detections on human bodies with high imaging rates. This synthesizer provides local oscillators both for millimeter-wave front-ends and intermediate frequency IQ de...

A 900-MHz phase-locked loop frequency synthesizer implemented in a 0.6m CMOS technology is developed for the Wireless Integrated Network Sensors applications. It incorporates an automatic switched-capacitor (SC) discrete-tuning loop to extend the overall frequency tuning range to 20%, while the VCO gain ( VCO) resulting from the CMOS varactor continuous-tuning is kept low at only 20 MHz/V in or...

This paper presents a fast-hopping frequency synthesizer architecture with quadrature outputs, based on subharmonic injection-locking, that is compliant with WirelessUSB/WiMedia specifications. The synthesizer features a crosscoupled quadrature digitally-controlled oscillator, that is injection locked to a sub-harmonic frequency. On-chip mixers have been implemented to measure the quadrature ac...

In this paper, we propose an all-digital frequency synthesizer architecture, based on an all-digital Σ∆-frequency discriminator. The new all-digital synthesizer is compared to previously published work. The architecture of the Σ∆frequency discriminator is verified using behavioral simulation.

Frequency synthesizer is a key building block of fully-integrated wireless communications systems. Design of a frequency synthesizer (FS) requires the understanding of not only the circuit-level but also of the transceiver system-level considerations. The FS design challenge involves strong trade-offs, and often conflicting requirements. In this tutorial, the general implementation issues and r...

The paper reports the implementation of a frequency synthesizer for system-on-chip (SOC) design. The epi-digital CMOS process is used to provide SOC solution. This work focuses on low-power consumption to achieve longer life-time of batteries. A 2.4GHz frequency synthesizer has been fabricated in 0.18μm epi-digital CMOS technology for ZigBee applications, which consumed 7.95mW from 1.8V supply....

This paper presents a complete noise analysis of a ΣΔ-based fractional-N phase-locked loop (PLL) based frequency synthesizer. Rigorous analytical and empirical formulas have been given to model various phase noise sources and spurious components and to predict their impact on the overall synthesizer noise performance. These formulas have been applied to an integrated multiband WLAN frequency sy...

Oscillator Architectures and Enhanced Frequency Synthesizer. (December 2009) Sang Wook Park, B.S., Yonsei University, Korea; M.S., Yonsei University, Korea Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Edgar Sánchez-Sinencio A voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) that generates a periodic signal whose frequency is tuned by a voltage is a key building block in any integrated circuit system. A sine wave oscill...