A novel design of high-speed divide-by-3/4 counter for a dual-modulus prescaler

[摘要] References(5)A novel design for a high-speed divide-by-3/4 counter is presented. The proposed design reduces not only the critical path delay but also the feedback path delay, hence it can increase the operating speed. With this divide-by-3/4 counter, a divide-by-127/128 dual-modulus prescaler (DMP), implemented in 0.18µm CMOS technology, shows a maximum operating frequency of 7.0GHz with 2.4mW power consumption at 1.8V supply voltage, which has 25% speed improvement and still consumes less power as well compared to the recently-reported one.

[学科分类] 电子、光学、磁材料

[关键词] prescaler;high-speed circuits;synchronous counter