A GaAs single chip 2.4 GHz PLL frequency multiplier

Author

Baumberger, W. ; Schmatz, M.L.

Author_Institution

Lab. for EM Fields & Microwave Electron., Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland

fYear

1996

fDate

17-19 June 1996

Firstpage

39

Lastpage

42

Abstract

A monolithic GaAs frequency synthesizer/multiplier for the 2.4 GHz ISM band is presented. The single chip device consists of a VCO, a prescaler /spl divide/16, a phase detector and a loop filter. Measured phase noise is -102 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz offset while the frequency of operation covers 2.3 GHz to 2.55 GHz. The device runs from a single 5 V supply and delivers +3 dBm of RF output power. The chip was mounted in a plastic package and a ready to use demonstrator board was designed.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; MESFET integrated circuits; UHF frequency convertors; UHF integrated circuits; frequency multipliers; frequency synthesizers; gallium arsenide; phase locked loops; phase noise; prescalers; voltage-controlled oscillators; 2.3 to 2.55 GHz; 5 V; GaAs; ISM band; MESFET technology; PLL frequency multiplier; RF output power; VCO; frequency synthesizer/multiplier; loop filter; phase detector; phase noise; plastic package; prescaler; Detectors; Filters; Frequency measurement; Frequency synthesizers; Gallium arsenide; Noise measurement; Phase detection; Phase locked loops; Phase measurement; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Monolithic Circuits Symposium, 1996. Digest of Papers., IEEE 1996

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3360-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MCS.1996.506299

Filename

506299