A low-voltage fourth-order RF bandpass filter structure based on emulation of two magnetically coupled resonators is presented. A unique feature of the proposed architecture is using electric coupling to emulate the effect of the coupled inductors, thus providing bandwidth tuning with small passband ripple. Each resonator is built using on-chip spiral inductors and accumulation-mode pMOS capaci...

On-chip distributed transmission line resonators in CMOS technology have become the interest of research subjects recently (Ono et al. 2001; Umeda et al., 1994; Kanaya et al., 2006; Wolf, 2006) because of their size which becomes more compact, as the frequency of application increases. Among the various transmission lines, coplanar waveguide (CPW) has more engineering applications (Toyoda, 1996...

In recent years, there has been tremendous interest in all-printed electronics as a means of achieving ultra-low-cost electronic circuits with uses in displays and disposable electronics applications such as RFID tags. While there have been a few demonstrations of printed organic transistors to date, there has been little work on the associated passive component and interconnection technologies...

Conventionally, Cu is preferred over Al to fabricate integrated inductors with higher quality factors on either silicon or sapphire substrates, profiting from its lower resistivity. However, after investigating and comparing these two kinds of metal multilayers in terms fabrication process, electrical conductivity, in-depth profile analysis performance actual inductors, the Al-based multilayer ...

<p>The voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) is the primary device in phase-locked loop (PLL) to produce local frequency. The excessive phase noise of VCOs cause PLL performance loss. This paper proposes design and optimization low power consumption for a 180 nm N-channel metal-oxide semiconductor NMOS VCO applications with P-channel PMOS varactors spiral inductors. At 2 V supply voltage, o...

This work shows the process of characterization and modeling of integrated inductors in CMOS silicon technology for biotelemetry applications [1]. Three planar square inductors with different geometrical characteristics were designed, using the 2 μm CMOS technology of AMS. With physical models [2, 3] and the software ASITIC, was possible to define the geometrical characteristics of the inductor...

This letter presents the synthesis of a broadband rat-race consisting of a miniaturized broadband rat-race hybrid and transmission line cascades. This broadband technique involves connecting a cascade of transmission lines with lengths equal to a quarter of the wavelength at the design frequency to each port of a previously proposed rat-race hybrid. Butterworth and Chebyshev performances of the...

Recently, spiral inductors have widely been used in the design of matching circuits of a wireless transceiver. However, such elements usually have low quality factor (Q) and may encounter the self-resonance in microwave-frequency band which permits its use in higher frequencies, and on the other hand, they occupy the large on-chip space. This paper presents a new design theory for the impedance...

The fundamental role of a notch filter in communication systems is the attenuation, if not outright rejection, of signals whose frequencies lie within a specified passband. If the passband identified for rejection lies at very high frequencies, passive notch filters prove more effective than their active counterparts, but their design realization is necessarily less systematic. In this paper, o...

A low-power fully-integrated type-2 4-order 1.7GHz CMOS frequency synthesizer for DCS-1800 application is designed and simulated in a 0.25μm process technology. The frequency switching is achieved using a novel architecture exploiting a direct digital synthesis (DDS) device as the frequency reference. The new topology significantly lowers the undesired sideband power due to divider ratio switch...