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A 5.9mW 50Mbps CMOS QPSK/O-QPSK transmitter employing injection locking for direct modulation

  • Shengxi Diao*
  • , Yuanjin Zheng
  • , Yuan Gao
  • , Xiaojun Yuan
  • , Minkyu Je
  • , Chun Huat Heng
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
  • National University of Singapore

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Abstract

A 900MHz QPSK/O-QPSK transmitter suitable for biomedical high quality imaging application is presented. The phase modulation is achieved by directly modifying the self-resonant frequency of a sub-harmonic injection-locked oscillator through capacitor bank switching. Due to the simplicity of the proposed architecture, implemented in 0.18μm CMOS technology, it consumes very low power of 3mW and 5.88mW with 1.2V and 1.4V supply voltages respectively, while transmitting at 50Mbps data rate. The transmitter can deliver output power of -3.3dBm at 1.4V supply with an EVM of 6.6%.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2010 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2010
Pages37-40
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event2010 6th IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2010 - Beijing, China
Duration: 8 Nov 201010 Nov 2010

Publication series

Name2010 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2010

Conference

Conference2010 6th IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2010
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period8/11/1010/11/10

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