In this dissertation, a fast-hopping frequency synthesizer using subharmonic injection locked oscillator and low-power wireless system using super-regeneration technique are investigated. A low-power wireless system for performing a local wireless com...
In this dissertation, a fast-hopping frequency synthesizer using subharmonic injection locked oscillator and low-power wireless system using super-regeneration technique are investigated. A low-power wireless system for performing a local wireless communication using a predetermined frequency band divided into a plurality of channels and an adaptive channel selection sensor based on the spectrum cognition are investigated. A super-regenerative receiver (SRR) structure with channel selectable super-regenerative oscillator (SRO) is utilized as an adaptive channel selection sensor. The proposed sensor has been designed at the 2.4 GHz ISM band. System evaluation is performed with 100MHz frequency band divided by 10 channels (10MHz channel spacing) and the data rate of 50 Kbps. Measured Rx. sensitivity of the sensor is -80 dBm and the power consumption of the sensor is less than 1.2 Watt.
The proposed synthesizer employs a third-order subharmonic injection locked oscillator generated by the direct digital frequency synthesizer (DDS). A system shows that the locking range is about 870 MHz with an injection power of 15 dBm and a fast locking time of 115 nsec with a wide locking range and a reduction of reference source spurs at the locked oscillator output. In addition, it has a low phase noise of -119.6 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz offset and a low consumption power of 31 mW. This architecture may be helpful to design a high performance synthesizer for radio communication applications.