An Active-Inductor Injection Locked Frequency Divider With Variable Division Ratio

摘要

This letter presents a wide-locking range, body-injected, injection locked frequency divider (ILFD) with tunable active inductors (TAIs) and variable division ratio. The ILFD was fabricated in the 0.18 $mu{rm m}$ 1P6M CMOS technology, and it has the modulus of 2, 3, 4, and 5, and can be used as a first-harmonic injection-locked oscillator (ILO). The divide-by-3 function is performed by injecting differential a signal to the bodies of cross-coupled transistors in the VCO. At the supply voltage of 1.5 V, the free-running divider is tunable from 0.53 to 1.72 GHz. At the incident power of 0dBm the operation range in the first-harmonic ILO is from the incident frequency 0.53 to 3.2 GHz. The operation range in the divide-by-3 (divide-by-2) mode is about 3.59 (4.13) GHz, from the incident frequency 1.55 to 5.14 (0.87 to 5.0) GHz.