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This research was funded by the NeuroSpaceWare project (PID2022-141391OB-C21) from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, and the grant Autonomous Sensing Platform for Structural Monitoring of Transmission Towers from the MIT.

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A Highly Linear Ultra-Low-Area-and-Power CMOS Voltage-Controlled Oscillator for Autonomous Microsystems

Publicat a:Micromachines. 15 (10): 1193- - 2024-10-01 15(10), DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/mi15101193

Autors: de Mena Pacheco, Javier; Pacheco, J; Palacios, Tomas; Palacios, T; Hempel, Marek; Hempel, M; Vallejo, Marisa Lopez; Vallejo, ML

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Voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs) can be an excellent means of converting a magnitude into a readable value. However, their design becomes a real challenge for power-and-area-constrained applications, especially when a linear response is required. This paper presents a VCO for smart dust systems fabricated by 65 nm technology. It is designed to minimize leakage, limit high peak currents and provide an output whose frequency variation is linear with the input voltage, while allowing rail-to-rail input range swing. The oscillator occupies 592 mu m2, operates in a frequency range from 43 to 53 Hz and consumes a maximum average power of 210 pW at a supply voltage of 1 V and 4 pW at 0.3 V. In addition, the proposed VCO exhibits a quasi-linear response of frequency vs. supply voltage and temperature, allowing easy temperature compensation with complementary to absolute temperature (CTAT) voltage.

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