Design and optimization of LC oscillators

We present a method for optimizing and automating component and transistor sizing for CMOS LC oscillators. We observe that the performance measures can be formulated as posynomial functions of the design variables. As a result, the LC oscillator design problems can be posed as a geometric program, a special type of optimization problem for which very efficient global optimization methods have recently been developed. The synthesis method is therefore fast, and determines the globally optimal design; in particular the final solution is completely independent of the starting point (which can even be infeasible), and infeasible specifications are unambiguously detected. We can rapidly compute globally optimal trade-off curves between competing objectives such as phase noise and power.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: ICCAD
• Authors: Maria del Mar Hershenson, Ali Hajimiri, Sunderarajan S. Mohan, Stephen P. Boyd, Thomas H. Lee
• Keywords: CMOS LC Oscillators, Globally Optimal, Hardware, ICCAD 1999, Lc Oscillator