Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Advanced Research in Electronics and Communication Systems (ICARECS-2025)

Low-Power and High-Stability Voltage-Controlled Oscillators for PLL-Based Systems

Authors
N. Ashokkumar1, *, Nelaturu Sireesha1, Mekala Kullayappa1, Nekarakanti Madhavan1, Kalyani Bai Sugali1, V. Nagamani2
1Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Mohan Babu University (Erstwhile Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College), Tirupati, India
2Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Santhiram Engineering College, Nandyal, India
*Corresponding author. Email: ashoknoc@gmail.com
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N. Ashokkumar
Available Online 30 June 2025.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-754-0_36How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO); Ring Oscillator; Current Starved Voltage Controlled Oscillator (CSVCO); Phase-Locked Loop (PLL); High-Frequency Oscillations; Clock Generation etc.
Abstract

Voltage-Controlled Oscillators (VCOs) are what the Phase Locked Loop (PLL)-based hardware looks at. The study mostly checks how well they work with rates and how much power they use. A simple Ring VCO, a Current Starved Ring VCO (CSRVCO), a 5-stage CSRVCO, and a 5-stage CSRVCO with transistors serving as resistors were some of the oscillators that were looked at. To see how well the DSCH and MICROWIND tools worked with fast gears, they were put through that. CSRVCO, the second Ring VCO, doesn’t need as much power as the first one. The VCO only used 0.102 mW of power, which is a little less than the VCO’s 0.112 mW. Even less power was used: 0.0101 mW for the 5-stage CSRVCO and 0.100 mW for transistor-based resistors. By adding more steps to the CSRVCO, it was found to work better and be more stable at high frequencies. That’s why it’s good for jobs that need to be done quickly and right. In the 5-stage CSRVCO, transistors were used instead of op-amps. This made the frequency more stable and used less power. Now that we’ve won, the plan will be harder to carry out. That’s the end of it. The study looks at the good and bad things about having a complicated design, a steady frequency, and low power needs. This is a great way to find the best VCO design for making clocks and talking quickly.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Advanced Research in Electronics and Communication Systems (ICARECS-2025)
Series
Atlantis Highlights in Engineering
Publication Date
30 June 2025
ISBN
978-94-6463-754-0
ISSN
2589-4943
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-754-0_36How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2025 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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