Low Power Wide-Locking Range Divide-by-2 Injection-Locked Frequency Divider and Small Die Area Capacitive Cross-coupled Injection-Locked Frequency Divider

• Main Authors: Meng-Yan Fang, 方孟彥
• Other Authors: Sheng-Lyang Jang
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/61603386094193222681

碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 電子工程系 === 104 === Firstly, this thesis presents a new divide-by-2 ILFD, which is implemented in the TSMC 0.18 μm 1P6M CMOS process. The divide-by-2 capacitive cross-coupled ILFD has wide locking range at low power consumption by lowering the gate bias of the capacitive cross-coupled transistor. At the drain-source bias of 0.4V and at the incident power of 0 dBm, the locking range is 3.6 GHz (36.28%) from 7.2 to 10.8GHz at the power consumption of 1.52mW. The die area is 1.2 ×0.951 mm2. The second circuit is a wide locking range divide-by-3 LC injection-locked frequency divider (ILFD) in the TSMC 0.18 μm SiGe BiCMOS process. The divide-by-3 ILFD uses a cross-coupled NMOS pair, an injection MOSFET pair and a 6th order RLC resonator. The divide-by-3 ILFD has two oscillation frequency bands. The ILFD-core power consumption is 6.318 mW. At the drain-source bias of 0.9 V, and at the incident power of 0 dBm, a wide locking range 6.2GHz (65.26％) from 6.4 to 12.6 GHz is obtained by over-lapping the locking ranges at a fixed bias condition. The die area is 1.1×0.84 mm2. Finally, a lower power and wide locking range divide-by-2 capacitive cross-coupled injection-locked frequency divider (ILFD) is implemented in the TSMC standard 0.18 μm CMOS process. The ILFD is based on a capacitive cross-coupled VCO with one injection MOSFET for coupling the external signal to the resonator. The ILFD uses one 3-dimensional inductor to reduce the die area. At the supply voltage of 1V, the divider’s free-running frequency is 2.27 GHz, and at the incident power of 0 dBm the locking range is about 5.9GHz (132.58％) from 1.5GHz to 7.4 GHz. The core power consumption is 10.22mW. At low power mode, the ILFD has higher figure of merit. The die area is 0.719×0.637 mm2.