Reconfigurable FET-Based Tunable Ring Oscillator and Its Single Event Effect Performance

Abstract

In this work, reconfigurable Field Effect Transistor (RFET)-based ring oscillator (RO) has been proposed. RFET has two types of gates, control gate and program gate. This work investigates the possibility of exploiting the program gate of the RFET, for frequency tuning and duty cycle control using numerical device simulations. Different frequencies of operations have been demonstrated on the same oscillator by appropriately biasing the program gate. The program gates can also be used to control the duty cycle of the oscillator, at the given frequency. This paper also studies the single event effect (SEE) performance of the proposed RFET-RO. The simulation results suggest that the oscillators working at higher frequency are disturbed less compared to the oscillator working at lower frequency.