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A CMOS LC-tank frequency divider with 3D helical inductors

✍ Scribed by Sheng-Lyang Jang; Shao-hua Lee; Yen-Ruei Wu

Book ID
102515768
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
267 KB
Volume
49
Category
Article
ISSN
0895-2477

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The design of a frequency divider (FD) employing 3D helical inductors fabricated in the 0.18‐μm 1P6M CMOS technology is reported. The LC resonators consist of two 3D helical inductors and varactors. The aim of using 3D inductor is to reduce chip size, the inductance of inductor is designed to be 2 nH, and the size of the inductor is 155 × 155 μm^2^. The divide‐by‐2 LC‐tank injection locked FD is performed by adding an injection nMOS between the differential outputs of the divider with the structure of cross‐coupled n‐core VCO that contains a tapped LC resonator. The measurement results show that at the supply voltage of 1 V, the divider free‐running frequency is tunable from 2.496 to 2.04 GHz, and at the incident power of 0 dBm the locking range is about 1.31 GHz (30%), from the incident frequency 3.84–5.12 GHz. The core power consumption is 2.59 mW. The die area is 0.664 × 0.731 mm^2^. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 49: 1477–1480, 2007; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.22453

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