Hot-electron-induced effects on noise and jitter in submicron CMOS phase-locked loop circuits

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

12-1-2005

Abstract

In this paper, the hot-electron-induced degradation in voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) is investigated. A current starved VCO is designed in 0.25 μm CMOS process to verify the VCO gain degradation due to hot-carrier effects. The loop dynamics, phase noise and output clock jitter of a second order PLL are studied. The loop parameters, i.e., damping factor and natural frequency, phase noise and jitter degradations due to VCO degradation are analyzed, considering hot-carrier effects. After four hours stress, there is a 23% decrease in the damping factor and natural frequency, also l dB increase in phase noise and 17% increase in output RMS jitter. © 2005 IEEE.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems

First Page

507

Last Page

510

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