Quadrature generation techniques for frequency multiplication based oscillators

Pandey, Jagdish and Amrutur, Bharadwaj and Kudva, Sudhir (2008) Quadrature generation techniques for frequency multiplication based oscillators. In: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, MAY 18-21, 2008, Seattle.

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Abstract

Frequency multiplication (FM) can be used to design low power frequency synthesizers. This is achieved by running the VCO at a much reduced frequency, while employing a power efficient frequency multiplier, and also thereby eliminating the first few dividers. Quadrature signals can be generated by frequency- multiplying low frequency I/Q signals, however this also multiplies the quadrature error of these signals. Another way is generating additional edges from the low-frequency oscillator (LFO) and develop a quadrature FM. This makes the I-Q precision heavily dependent on process mismatches in the ring oscillator. In this paper we examine the use of fewer edges from LFO and a single stage polyphase filter to generate approximate quadrature signals, which is then followed by an injection-locked quadrature VCO to generate high- precision I/Q signals. Simulation comparisons with the existing approach shows that the proposed method offers very good phase accuracy of 0.5deg with only a modest increase in power dissipation for 2.4 GHz IEEE 802.15.4 standard using UMC 0.13 mum RFCMOS technology.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publisher:	IEEE
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Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Communication Engineering
Date Deposited:	30 Mar 2010 07:24
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:58
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/26688

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