A novel differential pulsewidth control loop (PWCL) is proposed, in which a balanced charge pump is employed so that the PWCL does not require a 50% duty cycle reference clock. A test chip is realised in a 0.35 μm CMOS process, and the measured results show that the tuning range for the duty cycle of the input clock is from 27 to 71% at 1 GHz operating frequency.
Published in:
Electronics Letters
(Volume:41
,
Issue:
17
)
Date of Publication: 18 Aug. 2005