Research Article

Electronically Tunable Differential Integrator: Linear Voltage Controlled Quadrature Oscillator

Table 2

Comparative summary on the characteristics of some recent quadrature oscillators.

ReferenceDevice usedElectronic tunability (KHz) reportedLinear tuning lawTHD (%)

[9]VOANo160NoNo mention
[10]CFAYes80Yes2.0
[12]CDBAYes900No3.1
[11]CFOANo159No3.16
[14]CDTAYes1730No3.0
[15]DDCCNo1060NoNo mention
[16]CCCCTAYes1100No1.15~2.94
[13]CDBANo16No1.94
[17]OTAYes64YesNo mention
[18]DVCCTAYes348No4.66
[19]DVCCTAYes3183NoNo mention
ProposedCFA-MMCCYes1800Yes2.1

Frequency stability in proposed design; also reported in [10]; no mention of in other references above.