A LC quadrature VCO with wide tuning range for TRPC-UWB application in 0.13-µm CMOS

Author

Yiming Huo ; Xiaodai Dong ; Ping Lu

Author_Institution

ECE Dept., Univ. of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

fYear

2014

fDate

28-31 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

This paper presents a wideband LC quadrature voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) for novel TRPC-UWB transceiver in 0.13 μm CMOS technology. Based on series coupling structure, and through combining the advanced switched capacitor and MOS varactor techniques, this QVCO´s continuous frequency tuning range covers from 5.05 to 5.84 GHz. The measured phase noise at 1 MHz offset from a 5.1 GHz carrier achieves -116.46 dBc/Hz, corresponding to a state of art figure of merit (FoM) at 180.2 dB/Hz. The maximum measured phase error for QVCO over the entire tuning range is below 1.8°.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; LC circuits; circuit tuning; error analysis; phase noise; reference circuits; switched capacitor networks; ultra wideband technology; varactors; voltage-controlled oscillators; CMOS technology; FoM; LC quadrature VCO; MOS varactor techniques; QVCO continuous frequency tuning range; TRPC-UWB transceiver application; advanced switched capacitor; figure of merit; frequency 5.05 GHz to 5.84 GHz; phase error measurement; phase noise measurement; series coupling structure; size 0.13 mum; transmitted reference pulse cluster; wide tuning range; wideband LC quadrature voltage controlled oscillator; CMOS integrated circuits; Couplings; Phase noise; Switches; Tuning; Voltage-controlled oscillators; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology (ICSICT), 2014 12th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guilin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3296-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSICT.2014.7021363

Filename

7021363