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    Author(s)
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    Ankush Mamgain
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, TIMA Lab
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    Salvador Mir
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, TIMA Lab
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    Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
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    Manuel Barragan
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    TIMA Laboratory, CNRS, Grenoble INP, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble
    Abstract

    An on-chip high-frequency sinusoidal signal generator with a calibration circuit based on a coarse-fine delay cell is presented in this work. The proposed signal generator is based on harmonic cancellation by adding scaled and time-shifted versions of a periodic signal. However, as we increase the target frequency of the generated signal, harmonic cancellation can be severely degraded by timing issues, degrading in turn the spectral purity of the generated signal. This paper proposes an architecture of a harmonic cancellation-based sinusoidal signal generator including a calibration circuit. The calibration circuit is based on a coarse-fine delay cell that can correct timing inaccuracies. Postlayout simulations of the proposed generator in FD-SOI 28 nm technology show a THD better than −60 dB in the frequency range from 173 MHz to 2 GHz