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MPhil thesis of Lo Chi Wa - Department of Electronic & Computer ...

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Bias (b)Frequencyreference (c)Bias (b)Bias (b)Die (a)ShiftregisterControl(e)Channelselection (d)Digitalmodulation (f)Fig. 127 Printed circuit board for VCO and synthesizer measurementsFrequency tuning by switchable-capacitor arrayThe switchable-capacitor array inside the voltage-controlled oscillator can providemonotonic frequency tuning from 760-980MHz as shown in Fig. 128. In this 8-bitswitchable-capacitor array, each least-significant bit (LSB) corresponds around 0.6MHzfrequency change at 760MHz and 1.25MHz frequency change at 980MHz, as shown inFig. 129. Compared to the designed tuning range (800MHz – 1100MHz), the frequencyis shifted down and the tuning range is smaller due to larger capacitance in theswitchable-capacitor array. At the 890MHz, each LSB is about 1MHz which is aboutfive channel spacings. The differential-non-linearity (DNL) <strong>of</strong> the switchable-capacitorarray due to the mismatches between the unit switchable capacitors is much less than0.5 LSB. Thus it is possible to use a switchable-capacitor array <strong>of</strong> larger number <strong>of</strong> bitsto provide finer frequency step and higher resolution. The only limitations are theminimal feature sizes <strong>of</strong> capacitors and switches and the extra parasitic capacitanceadded due to the increase <strong>of</strong> redundancy and longer peripheral <strong>of</strong> the smaller devices.120

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