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    Voltage-Controlled Sinusoidal Oscillator Using Commercially Available ICs with Amplitude Adjustability and Its Application to FM and FSK Modulations for Transmission and Processing of Identified Low-Frequency Signals
    (2026-04-01) ; ; ;
    Sotner, Roman
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    Nramat, Wichai
    This paper presents a new voltage-controlled sinusoidal oscillator employing only two commercially available LT1228 integrated circuits, four resistors, and two capacitors. The proposed oscillator provides independent control of oscillation frequency and oscillation condition, as well as adjustable output amplitude, while maintaining low output impedance without requiring additional active components. The oscillation frequency is electronically and linearly tuned via the LT1228 bias current or control voltage. Experimental results confirm the practicality of the design: The proposed VCO achieves a wide linear tuning range from 9.25 kHz to 837.2 kHz, THD below 2.55%, and phase noise of –73.35 dBc/Hz at a 1 kHz offset for a 237.8 kHz carrier. The amplitude of the sinusoidal output is adjustable from 0.48 Vp-p to 6.64 Vp-p. In addition, the proposed VCO is successfully applied to FM and FSK modulation for low-frequency signal transmission, and the FM demodulation test yields a recovered sawtooth signal with an SNR of 34.51 dB. Compared with existing LT1228-based oscillators, the proposed circuit achieves 25% lower power consumption (149 mW) and reduces the number of ICs required while improving functional versatility. These results validate the effectiveness and novelty of the proposed LT1228-based design.
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    Current/voltage controlled quadrature sinusoidal oscillators for phase sensitive detection using commercially available IC
    This paper presents the quadrature sinusoidal oscillators for a phase sensitive detection (PSD) system. The proposed oscillators are design by using the commercially available ICs (LT1228). The core oscillator consists of three LT1228s: two grounded capacitors and one resistor. By adding four resistors without the requirement of additional active devices, the amplitudes of two quadrature waveforms become adjustable. The quadrature output nodes are of low impedance, which can be connected to the impedance sensor or other circuits in a phase sensitive detection system without the need of buffer devices. The amplitudes of the quadrature waveform are equal during the frequency of oscillation (FO) tuning. The frequency of oscillation is electronically and linearly controlled by bias current or voltage without affecting the condition of oscillation (CO). Furthermore, the condition of oscillation is electronically controlled without affecting the frequency of oscillation. The performances of the proposed oscillators are experimentally tested with ±5 voltage power supplies. The frequency of the proposed sinusoidal oscillator can be tuned from 8.21 kHz to 1117.51 kHz. The relative frequency error is lower than 3.12% and the relative phase error is lower than 2.96%. The total harmonic distortion is lower than –38 dB (1.259%). The voltage gain of the quadrature waveforms can be tuned from 1.97 to 15.92. The measurement results demonstrate that the proposed oscillators work in a wide frequency range and it is a suitable choice for an instrument-off-the-shelf device.