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The Investigation and Optimisation of Phase-Induced Amplitude Attenuation in the Injection-Locked Ring Oscillators-Based Receiver

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In this paper, the injection-locked oscillator (ILO)-based receiver is investigated. The key design considerations of the ILO including the phase difference between the input and output signals and its impact on the ILO-based receiver are analysed in detail. Different strategies for both the narrow and wide-band applications are discussed and simulated. As a design example, a 2.4 GHz ILO-based receiver is implemented using a standard 40 nm CMOS technology, where a three-stage inverter-based ILO is optimised to maintain a good balance among working range, sensitivity and power consumption, etc. Measurement results show that the proposed receiver is able to demodulate an input signal at a 2.4 GHz carrier frequency with the data rate up to 1 Mbps while consuming \({<}300\, \upmu \hbox {W}\) power. It is suitable for short-range communication system such as chip-scale data link.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported by National Science Foundation China (Grant number 61274034 and 61574125) and the ZJU-SUTD Joint research project under the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (no. 2015XZZX001-01).

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  1. Institute of VLSI Design, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, People’s Republic of China

    Xiao Peng Yu, Zhe Liu & De Zhang Fan

  2. Singapore University of Technology and Design, 8 Somapah Road, Singapore, 487372, Singapore

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Yu, X.P., Liu, Z., Fan, D.Z. et al. The Investigation and Optimisation of Phase-Induced Amplitude Attenuation in the Injection-Locked Ring Oscillators-Based Receiver. Circuits Syst Signal Process 36, 1818–1835 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00034-016-0405-5

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