A 60GHz Miller Effect Based VCO in 65nm CMOS with 10.5% Tuning Range

Author

Lont, Maarten ; Mahmoudi, Reza ; Van der Heijden, Edwin ; De Graauw, Anton ; Sakian, Pooyan ; Baltus, Peter ; Van Roermund, Arthur

Author_Institution

Mixed-signal Microelectron., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven

fYear

2009

fDate

19-21 Jan. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents a 60 GHz voltage controlled oscillator implemented in conventional 65 nm CMOS technology. This VCO employs an alternative tuning system based on the Miller capacitance instead of conventional varactors. The presented VCO has a tuning range of 10.5 % and operates in the frequency range of 59.5 GHz to 66.1 GHz. It has an output power of -13 dBm and a phase noise of 80 dBc to -85 dBc/Hz @ 1 MHz over its entire range. The figure-of-merit (FOM) of this VCO is -162 dB.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; circuit tuning; millimetre wave oscillators; phase noise; varactors; voltage-controlled oscillators; CMOS technology; Miller capacitance; VCO; conventional varactors; frequency 1 MHz; frequency 59.5 GHz to 66.1 GHz; size 65 nm; tuning; voltage controlled oscillator; CMOS technology; Capacitance; Frequency; Millimeter wave technology; Phase noise; Q factor; Tuning; Varactors; Voltage; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, 2009. SiRF '09. IEEE Topical Meeting on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3940-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2831-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SMIC.2009.4770487

Filename

4770487