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Voltage-Controlled Oscillators<br />

Figure 8.32 Short tail pair with a large sinusoidal voltage applied to the base.<br />

It can be shown, provided V tank/vT > 8 (which is reasonable for most<br />

practical oscillator amplitudes), that<br />

i fund<br />

Itank<br />

= 2<br />

�<br />

281<br />

(8.67)<br />

Thus, if the parallel resistance of the resonator is R p , the peak voltage<br />

developed across the resonator differentially will be given by<br />

V tank = i fundRp = 2 �� 2<br />

� Itank� � R p = 2<br />

� ItankRp<br />

(8.68)<br />

Note that there are two currents of the type described in (8.67), one for<br />

each transistor. However, the current flows down through the supply, so only<br />

develops a voltage across half the parallel resonator resistance.<br />

The case where the current source in Figure 8.32 is made from a resistor<br />

is slightly more complicated. The total current flowing through the oscillator<br />

will change over a cycle (with minimum current at the zero crossings and<br />

maximum current at the voltage peaks). Equation (8.65) can be modified to<br />

take into account the resistor.<br />

ic (� ) ≈<br />

V B + | V tank cos (� )<br />

2<br />

R bias<br />

V tank<br />

v<br />

cos (� )<br />

1 + e T<br />

| − VBEQ<br />

=<br />

I BQ + |V tank cos (� )|<br />

2R bias<br />

V tank<br />

v<br />

cos (� )<br />

1 + e T<br />

(8.69)

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