Observations on the relationship between energy transfer efficiency and phase noise in an LC oscillator

Authors

David Murphy, University College Cork
Min Qu, Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
John Buckley, Tyndall National Institute
Michael Peter Kennedy, University College CorkFollow

Abstract

It can be shown that a differential LC oscillator has a point of maximum energy efficiency. Furthermore it has been observed, through extensive simulation, that this point corresponds to the point at which the oscillator experiences a "flattening" out of its phase noise profile.

Publication Title

Proceedings of the 2005 European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design

Recommended Citation

Murphy, D., Qu, M., Buckley, J., & Kennedy, M. (2005). Observations on the relationship between energy transfer efficiency and phase noise in an LC oscillator. Proceedings of the 2005 European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, 3, 313-316. https://doi.org/10.1109/ECCTD.2005.1523123