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Design and optimization of LC oscillators

Authors:

Maria del Mar Hershenson,

Sunderarajan S. Mohan,

Stephen P. Boyd,

Thomas H. LeeAuthors Info & Claims

ICCAD '99: Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design

Pages 65 - 69

Published: 07 November 1999 Publication History

Abstract

We present a method for optimizing and automating component and transistor sizing for CMOS LC oscillators. We observe that the performance measures can be formulated as posynomial functions of the design variables. As a result, the LC oscillator design problems can be posed as a geometric program, a special type of optimization problem for which very efficient global optimization methods have recently been developed. The synthesis method is therefore fast, and determines the globally optimal design; in particular the final solution is completely independent of the starting point (which can even be infeasible), and infeasible specifications are unambiguously detected. We can rapidly compute globally optimal trade-off curves between competing objectives such as phase noise and power.

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ICCAD '99: Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design

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