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http://dx.doi.org/10.5573/JSTS.2008.8.3.210

Surpassing Tradeoffs by Separation: Examples in Transmission Line Resonators, Phase-Locked Loops, and Analog-to-Digital Converters  

Sun, Nan (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University)
Andress, William F. (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University)
Woo, Kyoung-Ho (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University)
Ham, Don-Hee (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University)
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JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science / v.8, no.3, 2008 , pp. 210-220 More about this Journal
Abstract
We review three examples (an on-chip transmission line resonator [1], a phase-locked loop [2], and an analog-to-digital converter [3]) of design tradeoffs which can in fact be circumvented; the key in each case is that the parameters that seem to trade off with each other are actually separated in time or space. This paper is an attempt to present these designs in such a way that this common approach can hopefully be applied to other circuits. We note reader that this paper is not a new contribution, but a review in which we highlight the common theme from our published works [1-3]. We published a similar paper [4], which, however, used only two examples from [1] and [2]. With the newly added content from [3] in the list of our examples, the present paper offers an expanded scope.
Keywords
Tradeoffs; transmission lines; oscillators; phase locked loops; frequency synthesizers; analog-to-digital converters; pipelined analog-to-digital converters; calibration; discrete-time filter; integrated circuits;
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