Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology
School of Engineering
Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering
Selected Highlights from Research Findings
In 2003, an active integrated inductor was designed for usage in high-frequency integrated circuits (Ics). A software tool for generic active inductor was also developed. The research was continued in 2004, and the active inductor was improved and deployed in a fractional-N frequency synthesizer. The figure shows the layout of the complete frequency synthesizer as completed by Jannes Venter, one of our students. This research stems from the desire of having a completely integrated single-chip transceiver. Single-chip integration has several components, amongst others, the need for a frequency synthesizer - and this is where the subsystem fits in.
Contact person: Mr S Sinha.
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