Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS
Volume 34, Issue 1, Pages 77-85Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TCAD.2014.2365360
Keywords
Coupled oscillators; phase-domain modeling; stochastic simulation
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- Progetto Roberto Rocca MIT-PoliMI
- NSF-NEEDs program
- Div Of Engineering Education and Centers [1227020] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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An array of weakly coupled oscillators can generate multiphase signals, i.e., multiple sinusoidal signals with specific phase separations. Multiphase oscillators are attractive solutions in many electronic applications such as the synchronization of multiple processing units in digital electronics and the frequency synthesis in mixed-signal radio frequency circuits. Due to the complexity of multiphase oscillators and the large number of design parameters, novel simulation techniques are highly desired to efficiently handle such large-scale problems. In this paper, an efficient phase-domain simulation technique is proposed to calculate the phase response of inductance capacitance oscillator array. By some practical examples, it is shown how the proposed method can be exploited to identify the array topologies and parameter settings that guarantee stable phase separations. It is also shown how the proposed technique can be used to evaluate phase-noise performance.
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