{"title":"A multiply-by-3 coupled-ring oscillator for low-power frequency synthesis","authors":"S. Verma, Junfeng Xu, T. Lee","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2003.1221199","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A frequency-synthesis technique which extracts the N/sup th/ harmonic from an N-stage oscillator is presented. The maximum achievable voltage swing from such an oscillator is estimated. To study this technique, a multiply-by-3 circuit with two 180/spl deg/-coupled, single-ended three-stage ring oscillators has been fabricated in 0.24 /spl mu/m CMOS, designed to work in the 902-928 MHz ISM band (US and Canada). It provides two outputs: one at the normal operating frequency of the oscillator, and another at three times that frequency. The circuit can work at voltages as low as 1.3 V, while consuming 210 /spl mu/A of current.","PeriodicalId":270304,"journal":{"name":"2003 Symposium on VLSI Circuits. Digest of Technical Papers (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37408)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2003-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2003 Symposium on VLSI Circuits. Digest of Technical Papers (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37408)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2003.1221199","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A frequency-synthesis technique which extracts the N/sup th/ harmonic from an N-stage oscillator is presented. The maximum achievable voltage swing from such an oscillator is estimated. To study this technique, a multiply-by-3 circuit with two 180/spl deg/-coupled, single-ended three-stage ring oscillators has been fabricated in 0.24 /spl mu/m CMOS, designed to work in the 902-928 MHz ISM band (US and Canada). It provides two outputs: one at the normal operating frequency of the oscillator, and another at three times that frequency. The circuit can work at voltages as low as 1.3 V, while consuming 210 /spl mu/A of current.