ZHANG Hualiang, December 19, 2004

ADS Application Notes

Wireless Communication Laboratory Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

The Design of Oscillator Using ADS

ZHANG Hualiang, December 19, 2004

Introduction
This application note describes the design procedure of oscillator working at 2.3GHz using agilents ADS. In this notes, I will show the design procedures step by step.

Design procedures
1. Open ADS program. Choose File New Project to open a new project.

ZHANG Hualiang, December 19, 2004 2. In the new schematic of the project, we use the library icon to get the transistor model for the oscillator

3. In this oscillator design we will use nec_NE76184A_19921216 as the FET transistor. So we choose the model for the transistor from the RF_transistor_library Packaged GaAs FETs pf_nec_NE76184A_19921216.

Icon for the transistor

ZHANG Hualiang, December 19, 2004 4. We are now going to construct the circuit for input output matching and biasing network. Because we need to use the transmission line to do the interconnect, all these lines parameters can be defined by using the TLines_Microstrip category as shown in the below figures. The icon for Microstrip Lines Icon for defining the substrate Icons for different lines

Then we need to start the S-parameters simulation. The setup for the S-parameters simulation can be found in the Simulation_S_param category. We need to define frequency range, and terms for simulation.

Defining frequency range in the simulation

ZHANG Hualiang, December 19, 2004 The complete circuit schematic for the input and output matching and biasing network is given below
M LOC T L6 Subst="M Sub1" W=115.0 m il L=Lopen m il

DC_Feed DC_Feed2 V_DC SRC2 Vdc=3 V

M LIN T L4 Subst="M Sub1" W=115.0 m il L=Lm m i l

M T EE T ee1 Subst="M Sub1" W1=115.0 m il W2=115.0 m il W3=115.0 m il

M LIN T L5 Subst="M Sub1" W=115.0 m il L=Lout m i l

T erm T erm 1 Num =1 Z=50 Ohm

Var Eqn

VAR VAR1 Lg=1117.89 Ls1=1356.59 Ls2=1513.36

S-PA RA METERS
S_Param SP1 Start=1.5 GHz Stop=3.5 GHz Step=0.01 GHz

M LEF T L1 Subst="M Sub1" W=115.0 m il L=Lg m il

Var Eqn

pf_nec_NE76184A_19921216 A1

VAR VAR2 Lm =612.6666 Lopen=53.3712 Lout=137.386

MSub
M SUB M Sub1 H=62.0 m il Er=4.5 M ur=1 Cond=5.8E+7 Hu=3.9e+034 m il T =1.38 m il T anD=0.017 Rough=0 m il

V_DC SRC1 Vdc=-0.5 V

DC_Feed DC_Feed1

M LIN T L2 Subst="M Sub1" W=115.0 m il L=Ls1 m il

M LIN T L3 Subst="M Sub1" W=115.0 m il L=Ls2 m i l

To further prove the performance of the designed oscillator, we need to do the harmonic simulation to see the overall frequency performance of the oscillator. The setup for the harmonic simulation can be found in the Simulation_S_param category. We need to define frequency range, and terms for simulation.

Defining harmonic Simulation frequency

ZHANG Hualiang, December 19, 2004 The complete circuit schematic for the harmonic balance simulation is given below
MLOC TL6 Subs t="MSub1" W =115.0 m il L=Lopen m il

Vout DC_Feed DC_Feed2 V_DC SR C2 Vdc=3 V MLIN TL4 Subst="MSub1" W =115.0 m il L=Lm mil MTEE Tee1 Subst="MSub1" W 1=115.0 m il W 2=115.0 m il W 3=115.0 m il MLIN TL5 Subst="MSub1" W =115.0 m il L=Lout m il

R R1 R=50 Ohm

Os cPort Os c1 V= Z=1.1 Ohm Num Octav es=2 Steps =10 FundIndex=1 MaxLoopGainStep=

HARM ONIC BALANCE

Harm onicBalanc e HB1 Freq[1]=2.3 GHz Order[1]=3 Ov ers am ple[1]=2 MaxIters=10 Arc Lev elMaxStep=10.0 Os cMode=y es Os cPortN am e="Osc 1"

Va r Eq n

VAR VAR1 Lg=1117.89 Ls 1=1356.59 Ls 2=1513.36

MLEF TL1 Subs t="MSub1" W =115.0 m il L=Lg mil

pf _nec _NE76184A_19921216 A1 MSub MSU B MSub1 H =62.0 m il Er=4.5 Mur=1 C ond=5.8E+7 H u=3.9e+034 m il T=1.38 m il TanD =0.017 R ough=0 mil

Var Eq n

VAR VAR2 Lm =612.6666 Lopen=53.3712 Lout=137.386

V_DC SR C1 Vdc=-0.5 V

DC _Feed DC _Feed1

MLIN TL2 Subst="MSub1" W =115.0 m il L=Ls 1 mil

MLIN TL3 Subst="MSub1" W =115.0 m il L=Ls 2 m il

5. Start circuit simulation. After constructing the circuit schematic, we can simulate the circuit. First we select Simulate Simulate the circuit

ZHANG Hualiang, December 19, 2004 Then the data widow is prompted, you can choose the display mode for the simulation results (in Table, polar axis, smith chart ) , and can choose the desired S-parameter in dB, dBm.. Icons for selecting different display mode

Icons for selecting different Sparameters

Icons for selecting different units

The final results is similar to the figure given below

Icons for selecting markers

markers

ZHANG Hualiang, December 19, 2004 The results of harmonic balance simulation is also given below.

m4 harmindex=0 dBm(Vout)=19.542 m4
20 10

m3 harmindex=1 dBm(Vout)=6.799
Amplitude of the first harmonic (the oscillation frequency )

m3

dBm(Vout)

0 -10 -20 -30 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0

harmindex

From it we can see that the amplitude of peak oscillation frequency is 6.799dBm.

Conclusion
An oscillator designed on 2.3GHz is given in this notes based on the ADS simulation. It can be seen that by the help of the ADS various simulations can be done easily. Both the cost and the iterations of the design process have been decreased by using this powerful EDA tool.