IEICE Electronics Express
Online ISSN : 1349-2543
ISSN-L : 1349-2543
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An ultra low-power digitally controlled oscillator using novel Schmitt-trigger based hysteresis delay cells
Nasser Erfani MajdMojtaba LotfizadM.B Ghaznavi-GhoushchiArash Abadian
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2011 Volume 8 Issue 8 Pages 589-595

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In this paper, an ultra low power 15-bit digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) is proposed. The proposed DCO is designed based on a segmental coarse-tuning stage which employs novel Schmitt-trigger based hysteresis delay cells (HDC) as well as digitally controlled varactor (DCV) in the fine-tuning stage. Simulation of the proposed DCO using TSMC 180nm model achieves controllable frequency range of 191MHz ∼ 850MHz with a wide linearity. Monte Carlo simulation demonstrates that the time-period jitter due to random power supply fluctuation is under 124.8ps and the power consumption is 137µW at 215MHz with 1.8V power supply.

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