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A 5 GHz Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) with 360° variable phase outputs Presented by Tjaart Opperman ( [email protected]) Program: (MEng) Micro-Electronic Engineering (University of Pretoria) Supervisor: Saurabh Sinha AGENDA • Introduction • Motivation for Design • Methods of Phase Shifting • Design Specifications and Goals • Circuit Realization and Simulation Results • Circuit Layout • Integration with Modern Modulation Schemes • Summary • Questions/Comments? Slide 2 © CSIR 2006 www.csir.co.za Introduction – What is a VCO? VoltageControlled ControlledOscillator Oscillator(VCO) (VCO)with 360° Topic: A 5 GHz Voltage variable phase outputs • Slide 3 Voltage Controlled Oscillator – The frequency of the output signal is controlled by applying a voltage at a selected input. © CSIR 2006 www.csir.co.za Introduction – What is meant by phase-shifting? Topic: A 5 GHz Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) with 360° variable variablephase phaseoutputs outputs • Slide 4 Phase shifting - When a signal is being delayed for a certain time causing it to be out of phase by a certain angle with a reference signal. © CSIR 2006 www.csir.co.za Introduction – How phase shifting is achieved • There exists a number of Microwave devices that are used to obtain phase shifting. These include mostly ferrite phase shifters and diode phase shifters. MMIC phase shifters and MEMS phase shifters are also being developed. A non reciprocal ferrite “latching” phase shifter. Two p-i-n diode phase shifters that are of the loaded line type. Both these images were obtained from (D. Parker and D.C. Zimmerman, Phased Arrays-Part II: Implementations, Applications, and Future Trends, IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., vol. 50, 2002). Slide 5 © CSIR 2006 www.csir.co.za Introduction – The vector sum method of phase shifting VGA In-phase +- Vcontrol_I + Vector Sum 90° VGA Quadrature +- Vcontrol_Q • 360° phase shifting is obtained by the vector sum of orthogonal signals of which the amplitudes are varied. Slide 6 © CSIR 2006 www.csir.co.za Introduction – Typical performance parameters of various phase shifters Parameter Loss (dB) Rotary field P-I-N diode ferrite [1] [1] MEMS [1] MMIC [1] [2] Analogue IC [3] [4] [5] 0.7 1.4~2.3 1 8 N/A 25×66 15×28 2×2 1×0.8 1×1 Mass (kg) 1.3 0.270 0.003 0.003 0.003 Power Handling (W) 120 2 1 0.5 0.4~1 High Moderate High Moderate Low Size (mm2) Cost This work [1] Parker et al. [2] P.-S. Wu et al., New Miniature 15-20-GHz Continuous-Phase/Amplitude Control MMICs Using 0.18-um CMOS Technology, IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., vol. 54, 2006. [3] X. Guan et al., A Fully Integrated 24-GHz Eight-Element Phased-Array Receiver in Silicon, IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 39, 2004. [4] Gueorguiev et al., A CMOS transmitter for 802.11a WLAN with beam forming capability, Circuits and Systems 2005. [5] This work. Slide 7 © CSIR 2006 www.csir.co.za Motivation for Design - Antenna Arrays • Single-element linear antennas tend to spread radiated power over the broad beams in their radiation patterns. An array of antenna elements can be used to control the directionality of the radiation pattern. This architecture is mostly applied to RADAR systems and could be beneficial towards communications systems as well (e.g. smart antennas). • • A giant phased-array RADAR in Alaska, USA Slide 8 © CSIR 2006 www.csir.co.za Motivation for Design - Antenna Arrays • Slide 9 This beam formation capability of antenna arrays is achieved by tuning the phase and amplitude of the transmitting signal, individually for each antenna element. (Note that no mechanical movement is required!) © CSIR 2006 A beam-forming back end and corresponding antenna pattern (Gueorguiev et al., A CMOS transmitter for 802.11a WLAN with beam forming capability, Circuits and Systems 2005) www.csir.co.za Design Specifications and Goals (2007) 1. To design a quadrature VCO with a tuning range of 4.6 to 5.3 GHz. 2. The VCO must have multiple outputs and the phase shift of each output must be independently variable over its entire cycle (i.e. 360°). 3. The phase shifting must be accomplished using the vector sum method. 4. The entire design must be implemented on an Integrated Circuit (IC) using the AMS S35 SiGe BiCMOS process. Slide 10 © CSIR 2006 www.csir.co.za Design Specifications and Goals (2008) 5. The design must be fabricated through Europractice (which is also a requirement for the Master’s degree: Micro-Electronic Engineering, University of Pretoria). 6. Measurements on the actual product must be performed and compared to predicted values. This includes critical performance indicators such as • • • • • Slide 11 phase noise, phase error, power consumption, yield and temperature sensitivity. © CSIR 2006 An example of an IC-package (left). The image was obtained from (www.onsig.com). www.csir.co.za Circuit Realization – Design spec. 1: VCO 3.3V On-chip spiral inductors 270° 180° Vtune Vtune 90° 0° 270° 0° 90° 180° ICoupling IBias Coupling transistors • On-chip spiral inductors are used in the LC-tank. • The quadrature signals are obtained by coupling two VCOs • Slide 12 together. The coupled oscillators synchronize to exactly the same frequency, in spite of mismatches in their resonant circuits. © CSIR 2006 www.csir.co.za Simulation Results – Design spec. 1: VCO (GHz) Output OutputFrequency Frequency (Hz) 5.4 x 10 Tuning characteristic of the VCO 9 5.2 5 4.8 4.6 4.4 4.2 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 Vtune (V) • Simulation results show that this design specification has been achieved. Slide 13 © CSIR 2006 www.csir.co.za Circuit Realization – Design spec. 2 and 3: Phase shifter VGA Isum- In-phase Isum+ +- Vcontrol_I Gilbert Mixer 90° VGA + Vector Sum Vosc+ Vcontrol- Quadrature Gilbert Vcontrol_Q Mixer The schematic of the Gilbert Mixer used for a Variable Gain Amplifier (VGA). The current of the mixers are combined to obtain the vector sum. The differential architecture of the Mixer requires the transistors used as current sources to be closely matched. +- • • • Vcontrol+ Vosc- Slide 14 © CSIR 2006 www.csir.co.za Simulation Results – Design spec. 2 and 3: Phase shifter • The quadrature amplitude was held constant while the in-phase • Slide 15 voltage amplitude was swept. The phase shift was then measured. © CSIR 2006 www.csir.co.za Simulation Results – Design spec. 2 and 3: Phase shifter • Since the quadrature amplitude was held constant, the vector sum amplitude decreased by a factor of 2. Slide 16 © CSIR 2006 www.csir.co.za Circuit Layout A cross section of the AMS S35 SiGe BiCMOS process wafer. This image was obtained from (AustriaMicroSystems, 0.35μm HBT BiCMOS Process Parameters, ENG-219, Rev. 4.0) Slide 17 © CSIR 2006 www.csir.co.za Circuit Layout Key features of the AMS S35 process: • Triple poly, triple metal process + 1 thick metal layer • SiGe BiCMOS Mixed Signal and RF transistors • Poly-Poly and Metal-Metal capacitors • Feature sizes: 0.35 μm gates and 0.4 μm emitters • Supply voltage 3.3V / 5.5V • ft > 60 GHz and fmax > 70 GHz • BVceo > 2V • 2007 Prototyping cost through Europractice: 1000 EURO/mm2 • Slide 18 Minimum required size for prototyping: 5 mm2 © CSIR 2006 www.csir.co.za Circuit Layout • The physical layout of the VCO (right) and the Gilbert Mixer (below). The complete design is to be fabricated in 2008. Slide 19 © CSIR 2006 www.csir.co.za Integration with Modern Modulation Systems • • • The vector sum method creates a variable phase offset on the harmonic signal it has produced. The vector sum method therefore does not shift the phase of an incoming signal as with conventional phase shifters. The most straight forward application for this kind of phase shifter would be to transmit information using Frequency-Shift Keying (FSK). Data Frequency control 90° Slide 20 © CSIR 2006 Phase shifter 1 PA1 Phase shifter 2 PA2 Phase shifter n PAn www.csir.co.za Integration with Modern Modulation Systems • • • Take note of the added advantage that the FSK design provides, that is: Integrating a single high-output power amplifier (PA) for one antenna is less favorable than integrating a number of lower-output PAs, with an equivalent output power in total. (Gueorguiev et al.) We need to be able to apply this technology to various other modulation methods as well. One solution would be to apply the phase shift to the local oscillator (LO), as shown below. IF signal Frequency control 90° Slide 21 Phase shifter 1 LO1 × PA1 Phase shifter 2 LO2 × PA2 Phase shifter n LOn × PAn © CSIR 2006 www.csir.co.za This architecture can be applied to the receiver side as well. • Summary Beam-forming allows the transmitter to transmit less power to cover the same distance and this is achieved with the aid of phase shifters. • Although the Analogue IC vector sum phase shifter has much lower power handling capability than most microwave phase shifters, it is much smaller, cheaper (when mass produced) and can adapt very quickly. • Such an IC has been designed and simulated operating at 5 GHz. It is worth investigating the application of this technology for a low cost, portable C-band RADAR (the CSIR and the DoD could benefit from this). • Instead of having to integrate a single high-output PA for only one antenna, with phased-arrays it is possible to integrate multiple lower-output PAs. Slide 22 © CSIR 2006 www.csir.co.za Questions/Comments? Slide 23 © CSIR 2006 www.csir.co.za