Low Voltage Low Power and High Frequency Vco/Ico Design

Muhomd Tayyab, M Y Yasin

Abstract


VCO is an important building block that finds application in various fields including communication, signal processing and signal synthesis. Designers have tried a variety of techniques and methodologies, imparting certain features and characteristics. However, here in this paper we present a simple ring based VCO which works low voltage and consume extremely low power. The simplest ring suitable for an oscillator is the CMOS inverter ring, however, this ring is replaced by pseudo-NMOS inverter ring. The pseudo-NMOS ring oscillator exhibits advantages like simplicity, low voltage bias  low power requirements, CMOS compatibility and increased oscillation frequency. Further, this circuit can also be easily converted into an ICO (Current Controlled Oscillator). Due to the non-zero low state of the pseudo-NMOS inverter, this scheme shows somewhat increased power, but this can be easily compromised. In this paper pseudo-NMOS ring oscillator is investigated.

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