Design and Analysis of Voltage Controlled Oscillators in 45nm CMOS Process

Also Available Domains Transistor Logic|Cadence EDA

Project Code :TVMATO425

Objective

The major contribution of this work is to reduce the delay in Voltage Controlled Oscillators. For reducing the delay, the concept of Negative Skewed Delay (NSD) was designed for VCO.

Abstract

In this project, a Voltage Controlled Ring Oscillator, Current Starved Voltage Controlled Oscillator and Negative Skewed Oscillator are designed with system performance prioritized. Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) is an oscillator whose output signal can be varied over a range, controlled by the input DC voltage. Waveforms and parameters are compared at high performance and Layouts are designed with area under high priority. All the designs are implemented in 45nm technology node in Tanner EDA tool.

Keywords: Ring VCO, Current Starved VCO, Negative Skewed Oscillator, PLL, CMOS Inverter, Low Power. 

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Specifications

Software Requirements:

  • Tanner EDA
  • Technology files:45nm

 Hardware Requirements:

  • Microsoft® Windows XP
  • Intel® Pentium® 4 processor or Pentium 4 equivalent with SSE support 
  • 512 MB RAM 
  • 100 MB of available disk space

Learning Outcomes

  • Introduction to Voltage Controlled Oscillators
  • Drawbacks in simple differential amplifier pairs
    • Transistors & its applications 
    • Types of Transistors 
    • Logic Gates using Transistors 
    • Pull Up and Pull Down networks 
    • Importance of Transistors
  • MOS Fundamentals
  • NMOS/PMOS/CMOS Technologies
  • How to design circuits using Transistor logic?
  • Transistor level design for Voltage controlled oscillators
  • How to design low power, high speed area efficient transistor level circuits?
  • Scope of voltage-controlled oscillators in today’s world
  • Applications in real time
  • Tanner EDA tool for design and simulation
  • Solution providing for real time problems
  • Project Development Skills:
    • Problem Analysis Skills
    • Problem Solving Skills
    • Logical Skills
    • Designing Skills
    • Testing Skills
    • Debugging Skills
    • Presentation Skills
    • Thesis Writing Skills


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