dc.description.abstract | Wireless network (Wi-Fi) came out at the beginning of the 21st century. However, it has rapidly developed to IEEE 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) in the past two decades. The FCC in the United States has opened the area around 6 GHz (5.925-7.125 GHz) in 2020. A new frequency band with a bandwidth of 1.2 GHz. The Wi-Fi standard that can support 6-GHz license-free is called Wi-Fi 6E. Therefore, the development of wireless transceivers and frequency synthesizers supporting this frequency band is necessary. Due to the rapid development of radio frequency circuits and the continuous improvement of operating frequencies, injection-locked frequency dividers have already played a pivotal role in frequency synthesizers. The intended application of this rack purchase is to design the voltage-controlled oscillator at twice the frequency of the earthquake, followed by a frequency divider divided by two, and the output of the frequency divider is the signal of the earthquake. In this thesis, we analyze a dual-mixing technique that directly injects and locks the frequency divider, and simulates and implements it, and finally the needle is used to obtain the measurement result.
Injection-locked frequency dividers are mainly divided into tail injection and direct injection. Because the direct injection architecture is easier to achieve the effect of broadband, it is currently widely used, but its architecture is an asymmetric architecture, so we refer to a symmetric architecture The divide-by-two injection-locked frequency divider is analyzed and implemented. We hope that we can start from this architecture and look for the characteristics and trends of this architecture through the characteristics of each component, so as to facilitate future design. In Chapter 2, the dual-mixing technology we used directly injects into the circuit architecture of the locked frequency divider. The circuit is analyzed. First, start with the passive components in the TSMC 0.18-um CMOS process model and the inductance of the center-tapped inductor. The three inductors with different line widths in the process model are all adjusted to a few specific inductance values. The Q value is recorded to facilitate subsequent analysis. After the inductance analysis, make another LC-tank interleaved coupling oscillator and use the previous pole specifications to simulate. We started the simulation from the smallest possible transistor size, and gradually increased the size of the transistor, collecting simulation data for graphing. From the oscillator to the frequency divider to the frequency divider, finally the circuit performance is improved through the resonance inductance. We discovered the trend of the components in each architecture, as well as the overall impact, and found the direction of optimization. In the future, similar architectures can use transmission line resonance to design and implement circuits when operating at high frequencies.
In Chapter 3, we will directly inject the dual-mixing technology of the 6-GHz unlicensed frequency band of this paper into the locking divider. The goal is that the output frequency band can cover 5.925-7.125 GHz (the input is 11.85-14.25 GHz). This topic refers to the divide-by-two architecture in [1]. The advantage of this architecture lies in the symmetrical architecture and dual-mixing technique. In the measurement results, the locked bandwidth is 11.0-15.6 GHz (35.4 %), the output power is greater than -5 dBm at the required frequency (11.5-14.5 GHz), and the DC power consumption is less than 3.9 mW. Finally The FoM is 9.07%/mW. Compared with other divide-by-two injection-locked frequency dividers in the literature, it has a good locking bandwidth, and the performance is above-average.
This thesis concludes in the fourth chapter. We will make a comprehensive analysis of the circuit of this topic and use the characteristics of each component to find the direction that can be improved. Finally, through the resonance inductance, the problem of input signal loss at the input end is improved. The next chapter designs and implements an injection-locked divider for the 6-GHz unlicensed frequency band, and ends with actual measurement results and comparisons. | en_US |