A Jitter and Power Analysis on DCO

Abstract

A jitter and power analysis on a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) is presented in this brief. By analyzing variable capacitance components on each switching node of the DCO, a simple jitter and power model was derived in a closed form. The proposed mathematical analysis can be effectively used for the accurate and faster estimation of the DCO jitter and power consumption; thus, the overall DCO design time can be significantly reduced. In order to validate our proposed mathematical modeling, the DCO has been designed and fabricated using a 0.13-mu m 1.2-V CMOS process. The fabricated chip presents the root-mean-square and peak-to-peak jitters of 8.9 and 70 ps, respectively, at the output frequency of 600 MHz, under the operation range of 179-656 MHz with a 2.8-ps resolution, which clearly shows that our proposed modeling is well matched with the experimental results.