This book provides architectures and design techniques to enable CMOS frequency synthesizers to operate at low-supply voltage at high frequency with good phase noise and low power consumption. It offers in-depth updates on many of these techniques, and introduces useful guidelines and step-by-step procedures on behavior simulations of frequency synthesizers. Finally, the authors feature four successful prototypes to illustrate potential applications of the architectures and design techniques described. Their work will prove useful for engineers, managers, and researchers working in RFIC...

This book describes in-depth transformer-based design techniques that enable CMOS oscillators and frequency dividers to achieve state-of-the-art performance. Readers are enabled to design for low supply voltage, low power consumption, acceptable phase noise, high operation frequencies, and wide frequency tuning range and locking range. Design, optimization, and measured performance of various oscillators and dividers for different applications are discussed in detail, focusing on not only ultra-low supply voltage but also ultra-wide frequency tuning range and locking range, at very high...