Oscillator Architectures and Enhanced Frequency Synthesizer. (December 2009) Sang Wook Park, B.S., Yonsei University, Korea; M.S., Yonsei University, Korea Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Edgar Sánchez-Sinencio A voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) that generates a periodic signal whose frequency is tuned by a voltage is a key building block in any integrated circuit system. A sine wave oscill...

A CMOS three-stage ring oscillator is examined in UMC 0.13 μm and 0.18 μm technologies. The influence of PMOS transistor and resistor, as inverter feedbacks, on the ring oscillator frequency and the peak-to-peak amplitude is investigated in both technologies. Furthermore, as the ring oscillator usually drives a buffer in pulse generator/transmitter chain, dependence of its Figures of Merit on t...

This manuscript presents the designing and investigative aspects of a low power, wide frequency range, and delay cell based 3 and 5-stage ring oscillator for RF-Ultra-WideBand application. The wide range of frequency is achieved by using two variable voltage sources i.e. control voltage source (Vcntrl) and tail current source (Vtail). A tail current improvement is responsible to control the cha...

An oscillator whose frequency is amplitude dependent can be controlled by a drive whose frequency sweeps through a resonance with the oscillator's fundamental frequency. This phenomenon is called autoresonance, and has been previously investigated for drives with frequencies near the oscillator's fundamental or subharmonic frequencies. This paper examines autoresonance for drives at twice the f...

A well-designed free-running oscillator provides a periodic signal of constant amplitude and frequency fo from the energy delivered by direct-current (dc) sources. This has an immediate application for the realization of local oscillators used in the frequency-conversion stages of communication systems [1]. In receivers, the modulated signal at radio-frequency (RF) fRF is mixed with the output ...

Abstract An undisturbed Brownian oscillator may not reach thermal equilibrium with the bath due to formation of a localized normal mode. The latter emerge when spectrum has finite upper bound ω 0 and natural frequency exceeds critical value ω <mml:mtext...

The trapped ion frequency source is one of a class of passive atomic frequency standards that necessarily use an ancillary frequency source to interrogate the atomic transition. For passive atomic sources such as Rubidium standards, ultimate long term performance of the source is not dependent on this local oscillator, except to the extent limited by feedback gain. For the trapped ion source th...