A monotonic and low-power digitally controlled oscillator with portability for SoC applications

In this paper, a monotonic and low-power digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) with cell-based design for System-On-Chip (SoC) applications is presented. The proposed DCO employs a cascade-stage structure to achieve high resolution and wide range at the same time. Besides, based on the proposed single delay extraction scheme, the proposed DCO can provide monotonic delay with low power consumption and low circuit complexity as compared with conventional approaches. Simulation results show that power consumption of the proposed DCO can be improved to 0.79mW (@1529MHz) with 1.1ps resolution. In addition, the proposed DCO can be implemented with standard cells, making it easily portable to different processes and very suitable for SoC applications.

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