This brief presents a wide frequency range digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) with low supply sensitivity and low power consumption. We propose a compensation scheme employing feedforward inverters to suppress supply noise. Both wide frequency range and fine resolution are obtained using a hierarchical architecture consisting of a coarse delay chain and an interpolator. The proposed DCO was fabricated in a 0.13-μm CMOS process. It successfully eliminates noise components due to supply variation. The phase noise at 1-MHz frequency offset from the carrier frequency of 700 MHz is -106.3 dBc/Hz. The frequency range of the DCO is measured from 320 MHz to 1.25 GHz.
Published in:
Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, IEEE Transactions on
(Volume:58
,
Issue:
10
)
Date of Publication: Oct. 2011