Technique for Flicker Noise Up-Conversion Suppression in Differential LC Oscillators

NN Tchamov, NT Tchamov - … on Circuits and Systems II: Express …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel technique for the suppression of the flicker noise up-conversion in a differential LC
oscillator topology is proposed. Relaxation mechanism and tunable noise filtering of the …

Sinusoidal and relaxation oscillations in source-coupled multivibrators

IM Filanovsky, CJM Verhoeven - IEEE Transactions on Circuits …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The paper considers the differential equation describing sinusoidal and relaxation
oscillations of the source-coupled multivibrator. The transition from one form of oscillations to …

Remarks on analysis, design and amplitude stability of MOS Colpitts oscillator

IM Filanovsky, CJM Verhoeven… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The small-signal analysis shows that the MOS Colpitts oscillator is described by a third order
characteristic equation. The procedure for finding the second order approximation is …

Receiver front-end circuits for future generations of wireless communications

MAT Sanduleanu, M Vidojkovic… - … on Circuits and …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, new receiver concepts and CMOS circuits for future wireless communications
applications are introduced. The concepts derived are applied to a few classes of wireless …

A quadrature RC-oscillator with capacitive coupling

J Casaleiro, LB Oliveira, IM Filanovsky - Integration, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper the capacitive coupling in quadrature RC-oscillators is investigated. The
capacitive coupling has the advantages of being noiseless with a small area penalty and …

Ultra wideband, low-power, 3–5.6 GHz, CMOS voltage-controlled oscillator

A Tsitouras, F Plessas - Microelectronics journal, 2009 - Elsevier
In this paper, a low-power inductorless ultra wideband (UWB) CMOS voltage-controlled
oscillator is designed in TSMC 0.18 μm CMOS technology as a part of a ultra wideband FM …

A low power temperature to frequency converter for the on-chip temperature measurement

SS Chouhan, K Halonen - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we are proposing a simple energy efficient on-chip temperature to frequency
converter circuit. The proposed arrangement senses the temperature in terms of the …

A 7-μW clock generator in 0.18-μm CMOS for passive UHF RFID EPC G2 tags

L Lincoln, K Leung, HC Luong - ESSCIRC 2007-33rd …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An ultra-low-power clock generator for passive UHF RFID tag is implemented in 0.18-μm
CMOS process. By using the technique of dual-path clock generation with multiple clock …

Modeling of a MOS ultralow voltage astable multivibrator for energy harvesting

ACC Telles, S Finco, JA Pomilio - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This brief describes a new application of an oscillator with the inductive coupling of the gates
as an astable multivibrator that can work with a power supply as low as 40 mV. A model of …

Source follower: A misunderstood humble circuit

IM Filanovsky, J Järvenhaara… - 2013 IEEE 56th …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The paper demonstrates that the source follower is the core of such seemingly disparate
circuits as the wideband amplifier, crystal oscillator and emitter-coupled multivibrator. It is …