| Abstract: | Recently, miniaturization, low power consumption, and high‐frequency stability have been required in crystal oscillators as a frequency source, because of the rapid development of mobile communications, typified by cellular phones. Usually, a VCXO (Voltage Controlled Crystal Oscillator) has been included in PLL. And it has been required that the VCXO should be implemented on a CMOS–IC chip. The oscillating frequency of a traditional VCXO has been controlled by capacitance variation of a varactor diode. But it is difficult to implement the varactor diode on an IC chip. In our previous study, we showed that a transistor VCXO utilizing the MOSFET's Miller capacitance of a variable capacitance circuit had a wide frequency variable range. On the other hand, in a CMOS–VCXO, the Miller capacitance has decreased. Therefore, a wide frequency variable range could not be obtained by utilizing the Miller capacitance in the CMOS–VCXO. In this paper, first, a variable capacitance circuit is realized in order to construct a wide‐variable‐range CMOS–VCXO for IC. The variable capacitance circuit is composed of a MOSFET as a voltage controlled resistance. Next, the CMOS–VCXO is constructed by the variable capacitance circuit and a CMOS crystal oscillator. As a result, we show that the CMOS–VCXO has a wide frequency variable range of about 400 ppm.© 1999 Scripta Technica, Electr Eng Jpn, 130(3): 49–56, 2000 |
