A 24 GHz VCO with 20 % tuning range in 130-nm CMOS using SOP Technology

Author

Törmänen, Markus ; Sjöland, Henrik

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Inf. Technol., Lund Univ., Lund, Sweden

fYear

2009

fDate

7-9 June 2009

Firstpage

473

Lastpage

476

Abstract

A 24 GHz system-on-package (SOP) VCO is demonstrated. The core operates at 6 GHz and employs a high-Q on-carrier inductor. Using two cascaded on-chip frequency doublers the centre frequency is 24.6 GHz with a 20 % tuning range. The phase noise is below -107 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset over the tuning range, with a FOM between 188 and 192 dB at a power consumption of 6.9 mW.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; circuit tuning; frequency multipliers; microwave oscillators; system-on-package; voltage-controlled oscillators; CMOS technology; SOP technology; VCO tuning range; frequency 1 MHz; frequency 24 GHz; frequency 24.6 GHz; frequency 6 GHz; high-Q on-carrier inductor; on-chip frequency doublers; power 6.9 mW; power consumption; size 130 nm; system-on-package; CMOS technology; Circuit optimization; Degradation; Glass; Inductors; Phase noise; Radio frequency; Tuning; Varactors; Voltage-controlled oscillators; CMOS integrated circuits; Flip-chip devices; Microwave oscillators; Phase noise; Voltage controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, 2009. RFIC 2009. IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3377-3

Electronic_ISBN

1529-2517

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2009.5135583

Filename

5135583