Fast & Energy Efficient Start-Up of Crystal Oscillators by Self-Timed Energy Injection

Joeri B. Lechevallier; Ronan A.R. van der Zee; Bram  Nauta

doi:10.1109/JSSC.2019.2933143

Fast & Energy Efficient Start-Up of Crystal Oscillators by Self-Timed Energy Injection

Joeri B. Lechevallier^*
, Ronan A.R. van der Zee
, Bram Nauta

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Crystal oscillators take a long time and, more importantly, a significant amount of energy to start-up. This article presents a self-timed energy injection technique to quickly start-up a crystal oscillator, for very low energy consumption. This is achieved without a power-hungry oscillator to provide the injection signal. The design considerations are discussed, and a prototype crystal oscillator using the proposed technique is integrated into a 22-nm fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) technology. Connected to a 50-MHz crystal, the manufactured IC achieves a start-up time of 6 μs, for an energy consumption of just 3.7 nJ.

Original language	English
Article number	8816671
Pages (from-to)	3107-3117
Number of pages	11
Journal	IEEE journal of solid-state circuits
Volume	54
Issue number	11
Early online date	27 Aug 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2019.2933143
Publication status	Published - Nov 2019

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Keywords

crystal oscillaters
duty cycling
energy injection
Internet of Things (IoT)
Low power
start-up energy
start-up time

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Energy Efficient Start-up of Crystal Oscillators using Stepwise Charging
Lechevallier, J. B., Bindra, H. S., van der Zee, R. A. R. & Nauta, B., Aug 2021, In: IEEE journal of solid-state circuits. 56, 8, p. 2427-2437 11 p., 9373983.
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Energy Efficient Start-up of Crystal Oscillators using Stepwise Charging

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