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Low Power Circuits for RF-Frequency Synthesizers in the Low GHz Range

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The voltage controlled oscillator and the prescaler are building blocks which dominate power consumption of RF frequency synthesizers. This paper explores the low power aspects of CMOS VCO and prescaler design. Different resonator circuits are analyzed and compared. Measurement results on a 1GHz oscillator, a quadrature signal generator, and a dual modulus prescaler, all with very low power consumption, are presented.

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  1. Integrated Systems Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerland

    Dirk Pfaff & Qiuting Huang

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  1. Broadcom Netherlands B. V., Bunnik, The Netherlands

    Rudy J. van de Plassche

  2. Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

    Johan H. Huijsing

  3. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, The Netherlands

    Willy Sansen

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Pfaff, D., Huang, Q. (2000). Low Power Circuits for RF-Frequency Synthesizers in the Low GHz Range. In: van de Plassche, R.J., Huijsing, J.H., Sansen, W. (eds) Analog Circuit Design. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3198-9_18

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