Title
18-Ghz Clock Distribution Using A Coupled Vco Array
Abstract
This paper describes an 18-GHz coupled VCO array for low jitter and low phase deviation clock distribution. To reduce the skew, jitter and power consumption associated with clock distribution, the clock is generated by a one-dimensional VCO array in which the oscillating nodes of adjacent VCOs are directly connected with wires. The effects of the wire length and number of unit VCOs in the array are discussed. Both 4-unit and a 2-unit VCO arrays for delivering a clock signal to a 16:1 multiplexor were designed and fabricated in a 90-nm CMOS process. The frequency range of the 4-unit VCO array was 16 GHz to 18.5 GHz while each unit VCO consumed 2 mA.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1093/ietele/e90-c.4.811
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRONICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
high-speed I/O, clock distribution, oscillators, injection locking, voltage-controlled oscillator
Clock signal,Injection locking,Voltage-controlled oscillator,Multiplexer,Electronic engineering,Skew,Jitter,Engineering,Electrical engineering,Gigue,Power consumption
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E90C
4
1745-1353
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.44
5
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Takayuki Shibasaki16612.00
Hirotaka Tamura220432.19
Kouichi Kanda3567.86
Hisakatsu Yamaguchi46410.20
Junji Ogawa510012.63
Tadahiro Kuroda6659213.23