A low complexity digital frequency calibration with high jitter immunity for ultra-low-power oscillators

Autor: M. Scholl, R. Wunderlich, S. Heinen
Jazyk: German<br />English
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Advances in Radio Science, Vol 17, Pp 145-150 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1684-9965
1684-9973
DOI: 10.5194/ars-17-145-2019
Popis: This paper presents a highly efficient digital frequency calibration method for ultra-low-power oscillators in wireless communication systems. This calibration method locks the ultra-low-power oscillator's output frequency to the reference clock of the wireless transceiver during its send- and receive-state to achieve frequency stability over process variation and temperature drifts. The introduced calibration scheme offers high jitter immunity and short locking periods overcoming frequency calibration errors for typical ultra-low-power oscillator's by utilizing non-linear segmented feedback levels. In measurements the proposed calibration method improves the frequency stability of an ultra-low-power 32 kHz oscillator from 53 to 10 ppm ∘C−1 over a wide temperature range for temperature drifts of less than 1 ∘C s−1 with an estimated power consumption of 185 nW while coping with relocking periods of 7 ms.
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