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Relaxation oscillator
About: Relaxation oscillator is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1952 publications have been published within this topic receiving 22326 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a method for analyzing beat frequency entrained (or mode locked) systems of coupled nonlinear oscillators is presented, which relates the stability of the states to the relationship between the frequency pullings and the time average phases of the oscillators.
Abstract: A method for analyzing beat frequency entrained (or mode locked) systems of coupled nonlinear oscillators is presented. Stable mode locked states are almost periodic oscillations that occur outside of the fundamental entrainment region of the array, and generate a periodic pulse train when the oscillator outputs are summed. The analysis relates the stability of the states to the relationship between the frequency pullings and the time average phases of the oscillators. The method is applied to three mode locked Van der Pol oscillators with arbitrary coupling time delay, and shows that the mode locking bandwidth is maximized for specific values of coupling delay and oscillator nonlinearity parameter. >
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TL;DR: In this article, the problem of coupling two non-linear oscillators of the saw-tooth type at either the threshold or base in such a way that the threshold (base) of the first oscillator is equal to a constant plus a term proportional to the value of the state of the second oscillator, and similarly for the other oscillator was discussed.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a simple theory of the charging cycle is presented for ovonic switches operating in the relaxation oscillation mode, taking into account the variation of the OFFstate resistance with bias voltage.
Abstract: A simple theory of the charging cycle is presented for ovonic switches operating in the relaxation oscillation mode. The theory takes into account the variation of the OFF‐state resistance with bias voltage. An analytical expression for the period of oscillation as a function of circuit components and device parameters is obtained showing that a nonlinear increase of the period of oscillation exists with increasing series resistance. The presented theory is in good agreement with experimental results.
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TL;DR: This work shows that under the influence of an external second-harmonic injection signal, the oscillator phases exhibit a bipartition that can be used to calculate a high-quality approximate Max-Cut solution to solve the NP-Hard maximum cut (Max-Cut) problem.
Abstract: In this work, we experimentally demonstrate an integrated circuit (IC) of 30 relaxation oscillators with reconfigurable capacitive coupling to solve the NP-Hard maximum cut (Max-Cut) problem. We show that under the influence of an external second-harmonic injection signal, the oscillator phases exhibit a bipartition that can be used to calculate a high-quality approximate Max-Cut solution. Leveraging the all-to-all reconfigurable coupling architecture, we experimentally evaluate the computational properties of the oscillators using randomly generated graph instances of varying size and edge density ( $\eta $ ). Furthermore, comparing the Max-Cut solutions with the optimal values, we show that the oscillators (after simple postprocessing) produce a Max-Cut that is within 99% of the optimal value in 28 of the 36 measured graphs; importantly, the oscillators are particularly effective in dense graphs with the Max-Cut being optimal in seven out of nine measured graphs with $\eta =0.8$ . Our work marks a step toward creating an efficient, room-temperature-compatible non-Boolean hardware-based solver for hard combinatorial optimization problems.
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01 Jan 1997TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative discussion of the various physical processes responsible for phase noise production in CMOS oscillators, particularly in single-input single-output (SISO) oscillators is presented.
Abstract: Wireless transceivers closely specify the phase noise in the local oscillator. Yet it is not very well understood how phase noise is predicted, especially in oscillators which do not use a passive resonator. It is also difficult to model flicker noise in the close-in phase noise spectrum. This is a qualitative discussion of the various physical processes responsible for phase noise production, particularly in CMOS oscillators, and it offers a common treatment of resonator-based oscillators, ring oscillators, and relaxation oscillators.
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