A temperature-to-digital converter for a MEMS-based programmable oscillator with <±0.5-ppm frequency stability and < 1-ps integrated jitter

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 276-291

  Perrott, Michael H ^a,b   Salvia, James C ^a   Lee, Fred S ^a,c   Partridge, Aaron ^a   Mukherjee, Shouvik ^a   Arft, Carl ^a   Kim, Jintae ^a,d   Arumugam, Niveditha ^a   Gupta, Pavan ^a   Tabatabaei, Sassan ^a   Pamarti, Sudhakar ^e   Lee, Haechang ^a   Assaderaghi, Fari ^a,f  

^a SiTime Corporation   (United States)

^b KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^c FAIRCHILD SEMICONDUCTOR   (United States)

^d Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Invensense Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractional N frequency synthesizer; high frequency stability; low phase noise; MEMS; phase locked loop (PLL); pulsed biasing; quartz alternative; reference frequency; switched resistor; switched capacitor resistor; temperature compensation; temperature to digital; thermistor; VCO based quantizer

Indexed keywords

FRACTIONAL-N FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; HIGH-FREQUENCY STABILITY; LOW PHASE NOISE; PULSED BIASING; QUANTIZERS; REFERENCE FREQUENCY; SWITCHED CAPACITOR; SWITCHED RESISTORS; TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION; TEMPERATURE-TO-DIGITAL;

CAPACITORS; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; FREQUENCY STABILITY; FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; PHASE NOISE; QUARTZ; RESISTORS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

THERMISTORS;

EID: 84872108626     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2012.2218711     Document Type: Article

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