A fully integrated frequency synthesizer with low jitter and low power consumption in 0.18 μm CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) technology is proposed in this paper.The frequency synthesizer uses a novel...A fully integrated frequency synthesizer with low jitter and low power consumption in 0.18 μm CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) technology is proposed in this paper.The frequency synthesizer uses a novel single-end gain-boosting charge pump, a differential coupled voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) and a dynamic logic phase/frequency detecor (PFD) to acquire low output jitter.The output frequency range of the frequency synthesizer is up to 1 200 MHz to 1 400 MHz for GPS (global position system) application.The post simulation results show that the phase noise of VCO is only 127.1 dBc/Hz at a 1 MHz offset and the Vp-p jitter of the frequency synthesizer output clock is 13.65 ps.The power consumption of the frequency synthesizer not including the divider is 4.8 mW for 1.8 V supply and it occupies a 0.8 mm×0.7 mm chip area.展开更多
基金Funded by the Communication System Project of Jiangsu Provincial Education Committee under grant No.JHB04010
文摘A fully integrated frequency synthesizer with low jitter and low power consumption in 0.18 μm CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) technology is proposed in this paper.The frequency synthesizer uses a novel single-end gain-boosting charge pump, a differential coupled voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) and a dynamic logic phase/frequency detecor (PFD) to acquire low output jitter.The output frequency range of the frequency synthesizer is up to 1 200 MHz to 1 400 MHz for GPS (global position system) application.The post simulation results show that the phase noise of VCO is only 127.1 dBc/Hz at a 1 MHz offset and the Vp-p jitter of the frequency synthesizer output clock is 13.65 ps.The power consumption of the frequency synthesizer not including the divider is 4.8 mW for 1.8 V supply and it occupies a 0.8 mm×0.7 mm chip area.
