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Design optimization of the complementary voltage controlled oscillator using a multi-objective gravitational search algorithm

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Past decade has witnessed the progress of cross-coupled LC voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) in both academic and industrial communities. In this work, a new multi-objective optimization methodology is proposed to introduce an optimal design of a complementary cross-coupled LC-VCO. The design objective is to minimize the phase noise and power consumption of the oscillator at the oscillation frequency of 2.5 GHz and 1.5 V supply voltage. The important characteristics of the complementary LC-VCO which is one of the more popular cross-coupled configurations are described in sufficient details. In addition, the confirmation theorems of the proposed method are proven to show that the new version of Multi-Objective Gravitational Search Algorithm (MOGSA) can control the exploitation and exploration abilities of the algorithm. Hence the improved version of MOGSA has better performance against other popular multi-objective methods. The simulation results obtained from the circuit optimization are summarized to confirm the robustness of the proposed method.

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  1. The Matlab code is available on: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nVnAXohPuVyrTAD09cqXVuERtvBNzRwF/view?usp=sharing.

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    Sepehr Mood Ebrahimi

  2. Department of Electronic Engineering, Sirjan University of Technology, Sirjan, Iran

    Mohammad Jafar Hemmati

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection and analysis were performed by SEM and MJH. The first draft of the manuscript was written by SEM and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Ebrahimi, S.M., Hemmati, M.J. Design optimization of the complementary voltage controlled oscillator using a multi-objective gravitational search algorithm. Evolving Systems 14, 59–67 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12530-022-09433-5

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