• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.1261-1266
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• 2017

A random and systematic jitter suppressed delay locked loop (DLL)-based clock generator with a delay-time voltage variance converter (DVVC) and an averaging circuit (AC) is presented. The DVVC senses the delay variance of each delay stage and generates a voltage. The AC averages the output voltages of two consecutive DVVCs to suppress the systematic and random delay variance of each delay stage in the VCDL. The DVVC and AC averages the delay time of successive delay stages and equalizes the delay time of all delay stages. In addition, a capacitor with a switch working effectively as a negative feedback function is introduced to reduce the variation of the loop filter output voltage. Measurement results of the DLL-based clock generator fabricated in a one-poly six-metal $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process shows 13.4-ps rms jitter.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.6
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• pp.63-70
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• 2014

A low-N phase-locked loop clock generator with frequency multiplier is proposed to improve phase noise characteristic. Delay-variance voltage converter (DVVC) generates output voltages according to the delay variance of delay stages in voltage controlled oscillator. The output voltages of average circuit with the output voltages of DVVC are applied to the delay stages in VCO to reduce jitter. The HSPICE simulation of the proposed phase-locked loop clock generator with a $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process shows an 11.3 ps of peak-to-peak jitter.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.457-462
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• 2014

This letter proposes a low-jitter DLL-based clock generator with two negative feedback loops. The main negative feedback loops suppress the jitter of DLL. The additional negative feedback loops suppress the delay-time variance of each delay stages. Both two negative feedback loops in a DLL results in suppressing the jitter of clock signal further. Measurement results of the DLL-based clock generator with two negative feedback loops fabricated in a one-poly six-metal $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process show 5.127-ps rms jitter and 47.6-ps peak-to-peak jitter at 1 GHz.