In this thesis, the literature relating to charge pump dc-dc converters and their uses is reviewed. Charge pumps are useful in many circuits, including low-voltage circuits, dynamic random access memory circuits, switc ...

A comparison and analysis of jitter for five different architectures of ring oscillators using a novel simulation technique developed by Professor Forbes' group is presented. Ring oscillators have become an essential bui ...

In recent years, there has been an extensive effort to develop low-cost implementations of radio frequency integrated circuits for consumer applications. This thesis is a research effort in the design and implementatio ...

A series of complex digital blocks have been designed and fabricated using the newly developed current-mode differential CMOS logic family viz. the Folded Source-Coupled Logic ( FSCL ). The main feature of this logic f ...

The design of two 2.4GHz CMOS LC balanced oscillators in the 0.25μm National BiCMOS process for Bluetooth specifications is presented. These oscillators achieve low phase noise with low power consumption. At a frequenc ...

A computationally efficient and accurate substrate noise coupling model for multiple contacts in heavily doped CMOS processes is presented and validated with simulations and experimental data. The model is based on Z par ...

A negatively biased substrate has several advantages over a grounded substrate in CMOS technology. The on-chip generation of this negative substrate bias has made chips easier to use when only a single supply is prefer ...

In this thesis, novel design techniques have been proposed for implementing high-linearity SC circuits in a standard digital CMOS process. They use nonlinear MOSFET capacitors instead of linear double-poly capacitors. To ...

Phase-locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesizers lie at the heart of most radio transceivers. An important objective of the electronics and communications industry is to design high-speed building blocks which dissipate ...