A 1.9–3.8 GHz Fractional-N PLL Frequency Synthesizer With Fast Auto-Calibration of Loop Bandwidth and VCO Frequency

J Shin, H Shin - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A fast and high-precision all-digital automatic calibration circuit that is highly suited for ΔΣ
fractional-N synthesizers is designed to achieve a constant loop bandwidth and fast lock …

Wideband multi-mode CMOS VCO design using coupled inductors

Z Safarian, H Hashemi - … Transactions on Circuits and Systems I …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coupled inductors can create multiple resonant frequencies in a compact high-order
resonator. Together with proper nonlinear active circuitry, such a high-order resonator …

A Fast and High-Precision VCO Frequency Calibration Technique for Wideband Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizers

J Shin, H Shin - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A VCO frequency calibration technique suitable for a wideband fractional-N PLL is
presented. It provides a fast and high-precision search for an optimal discrete tuning curve of …

Wide-tunable LC-VCO design with a novel active inductor

MM Kizmaz, N Herencsar, O Cicekoglu - AEU-International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents the design of a wide-tunable, low-voltage, small-area LC voltage-
controlled oscillator (LC-VCO). Instead of a spiral inductor, a novel active inductor is used in …

Design and development of very high frequency resonant DC–DC boost converters

P Shamsi, B Fahimi - IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a very high frequency dc-dc boost converter. This design features low
voltage stress on the switch, high efficiency, and simple control. The low energy storage …

[HTML][HTML] Electronic tunability and cancellation of serial losses in wire coils

R Sotner, J Jerabek, L Polak, R Theumer… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
This work presents a novel methodology to adjust the inductance of real coils (electronically)
and to cancel out serial losses (up to tens or even hundreds of Ohms in practice) …

A 0.75–3.0-Gb/s dual-mode temperature-tolerant referenceless CDR with a deadzone-compensated frequency detector

J Jin, X Jin, J Jung, K Kwon, J Kim… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a 750-Mb/s to 3.0-Gb/s dual-mode (full and half rate) referenceless
clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit in a 65-nm CMOS process. The dual-mode deadzone …

Wideband Varactorless VCO Using a Tunable Negative-Inductance Cell

Y Chen, K Mouthaan - … Transactions on Circuits and Systems I …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A wideband LC voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) design with a new varactorless
frequency-tuning technique is presented. The wideband continuous frequency tuning is …

A wideband voltage-controlled oscillator with gain linearized varactor bank

J Jin, X Yu, X Liu, WM Lim… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new gain linearized varactor bank suitable for wideband voltage-controlled oscillators
(VCOs) is presented in this paper. The VCO tuning gain linearized techniques, namely the …

A 9 MHz–2.4 GHz fully integrated transceiver IC for a microfluidic-CMOS platform dedicated to miniaturized dielectric spectroscopy

M Bakhshiani, MA Suster… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a fully integrated transceiver IC as part of a self-sustained, microfluidic-
CMOS platform for miniaturized dielectric spectroscopy (DS) from MHz to GHz. Fabricated in …