• DocumentCode
    2567781
  • Title

    A phase-noise reduction technique for quadrature LC-VCO with phase-to-amplitude noise conversion

  • Author

    Chih-Wei Yao ; Willson, Alan N.

  • Author_Institution
    California Univ., Los Angeles, CA
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    6-9 Feb. 2006
  • Firstpage
    701
  • Lastpage
    710
  • Abstract
    A phase-noise reduction technique for quadrature VCOs reduces and shapes the transistor thermal noise injected into the system, and also provides a phase-to-amplitude noise conversion mechanism to further reduce phase noise. Two experimental designs provide 17% and 1% tuning ranges centered at 5.1GHz and 5.3GHz with phase noise of -132.6dBc/Hz and -134.4dBc/Hz at a 1MHz offset, respectively
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; MMIC oscillators; integrated circuit noise; phase noise; thermal noise; voltage-controlled oscillators; 5.1 GHz; 5.3 GHz; phase-noise reduction; phase-to-amplitude noise conversion; quadrature LC-VCO; thermal noise; Capacitance; Capacitors; Clocks; Frequency; Image converters; Inductors; Noise reduction; Noise shaping; Phase noise; Tail;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2006. ISSCC 2006. Digest of Technical Papers. IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • ISSN
    0193-6530
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0079-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696109
  • Filename
    1696109