voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO)

A 19.5-GHz Radiation-Hardened Sub-Sampled PLL With Quad-Core VCO in 16-nm FinFET Achieving Sub-50 fs Jitter

A 19.5-GHz Radiation-Hardened Sub-Sampled PLL With Quad-Core VCO in 16-nm FinFET Achieving Sub-50 fs Jitter 150 150

Abstract:

This letter presents a radiation-hardened (rad-hard) subsampled phase-locked loop (SS-PLL) that achieves state-of-the-art jitter performance while incorporating radiation-hardened techniques to mitigate single-event-upsets (SEUs) present in the space environment. Furthermore, rad-hard techniques are incorporated in each core PLL subblock which include a rad-hard charge-pump Gm cell, a pulser circuit with triple …

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A 6.2b-ENOB 2.5 GS/s Flash-and-VCO-Based Subranging ADC Using a Residue Shifting Technique

A 6.2b-ENOB 2.5 GS/s Flash-and-VCO-Based Subranging ADC Using a Residue Shifting Technique 150 150

Abstract:

This letter presents a 7-bit pipelined subranging ADC that integrates a 3-bit flash ADC with a ring VCO-based quantizer. A resistor-ladder-based residue shifter (RLRS) replaces traditional residue amplifiers, efficiently shifting the residue voltage into the most linear region of the $K_{textrm {VCO}}$ , thereby eliminating the need for post-linearity calibration. …

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A 9-GHz Low-In-Band Noise Sub-Sampling-Chopper PLL With Charge-Share Canceling Technique

A 9-GHz Low-In-Band Noise Sub-Sampling-Chopper PLL With Charge-Share Canceling Technique 150 150

Abstract:

This article presents a low-jitter sub-sampling chopper phase-locked loop (SS-CPLL) that incorporates a novel chopping charge pump (C-CP) to mitigate 1/f noise in short-channel devices operating at a low supply voltage of 0.75 V. A charge-share cancellation technique is introduced to suppress ripple generated by residual charge from the previous reference …

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