Title
Ultra-Low-Power, Ultra-Low-Voltage 2.12 Ghz Colpitts Oscillator Using Inductive Gate Degeneration
Abstract
An oscillator design technique for low-power and low-voltage applications is presented. The circuit is based on the classical common-gate Colpitts oscillator with additional positive feedback provided by an inductive gate degeneration. This technique decreases the required transconductance to start-up oscillations, which makes possible to reduce the minimum supply voltage, and hence the power consumption. A prototype was designed in a standard 0.13 mu m CMOS process using a zero-threshold transistor. The post-layout simulation results show an oscillation frequency of 2.12 GHz, with a power consumption of 4 mu W under a 40-mV supply voltage.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/NEWCAS.2013.6573614
2013 IEEE 11TH INTERNATIONAL NEW CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS CONFERENCE (NEWCAS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
oscillators,positive feedback,phase noise,logic gates,oscillations,transistors,cmos integrated circuits
Colpitts oscillator,Computer science,Voltage,Voltage-controlled oscillator,Electronic engineering,Control engineering,Vackář oscillator,CMOS,Low voltage,Transconductance,Transistor,Electrical engineering
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2472-467X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
5
4