@inproceedings{discovery10066094,
          series = {IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems},
           month = {May},
         journal = {2018 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS (ISCAS)},
       publisher = {IEEE},
           title = {Intermittent Excitation of High-Q Resonators for Low-Power High-Speed Clock Generation},
            year = {2018},
            note = {This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.},
       booktitle = {IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)},
        keywords = {Science \& Technology, Technology, Engineering, Electrical \& Electronic, Engineering},
            issn = {0271-4302},
          author = {Schormans, M and Valente, V and Demosthenous, A},
        abstract = {There is growing demand for circuits that can
provide ever greater performance from a minimal power budget.
Example applications include wireless sensor nodes, mobile
devices, and biomedical implants. High speed clock circuits
are an integral part of such systems, playing roles such as
providing digital processor clocks, or generating wireless carrier
signals; this clock generation can often take a large part of a
system's power budget. Common techniques to reduce power
consumption generally involve reducing the clock speed, and/or
complex designs using a large circuit area. This paper proposes
an alternative method of clock generation based on driving a
high-Q resonator with a periodic chain of impulses. In this way,
power consumption is reduced when compared to traditional
resonator based designs; this power reduction comes at the cost
of increased period jitter. A circuit was designed and laid out in
0.18um CMOS, and was simulated in order to test the technique.
Simulation results suggest that the circuit can achieve a FoM of
4.89GHz/mW, with a peak period jitter of 10.2ps at 2.015GHz,
using a model resonator with a Q-factor of 126.},
             url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS.2018.8351597}
}