A 2-GHz Low Power Differentially Tuned CMOS Monolithic LC-VCO

Author

Zhang, Li ; Chi, Baoyong ; Yao, JinKe ; Wang, ZhiHua ; Chen, Hongyi

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microelectron., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing

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0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A 2 GHz differentially tuned CMOS monolithic LC-VCO was designed and fabricated in 0.18-mum CMOS process. The VCO has a 16.15% tuning range (from 1.8998 GHz to 2.2335 GHz) due to a combination of analog and digital tuning technique (4-bit binary switch-capacitor array). The measured phase noise is -118.17 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset from 2.158 GHz carrier. With the presented smart switch, the phase noise varies no more than 3 dB at different digital control bits. The phase noise changes only about 2 dB in the tuning range due to the pn-junctions as the varactors. The VCO draws about 2.1 mA current from the 1.8 V power supply and could work in 1.5 V power supply

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; UHF integrated circuits; UHF oscillators; circuit tuning; monolithic integrated circuits; phase noise; varactors; voltage-controlled oscillators; 0.18 micron; 1 MHz; 1.5 V; 1.8 V; 2 GHz; 2.1 mA; UHF oscillator; differentially tuned CMOS; monolithic LC-VCO; phase noise; pn-junction; power supply; tuning technique; varactor; voltage controlled oscillator; CMOS process; Energy consumption; Phase noise; Phased arrays; Photonic band gap; Power supplies; Switches; Tuning; Varactors; Voltage-controlled oscillators; VCO; binary switchable-capacitor array; differentially tuned; phase noise;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics, 2006. ISCE '06. 2006 IEEE Tenth International Symposium on

Conference_Location

St. Petersburg

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0216-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCE.2006.1689429

Filename

1689429