• DocumentCode
    2788315
  • Title

    A 4-port-inductor-based VCO coupling method for phase noise reduction

  • Author

    Deng, Zhiming ; Niknejad, Ali M.

  • Author_Institution
    Berkeley Wireless Res. Center, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    19-22 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    A 4-port-inductor-based VCO coupling technique is introduced to improve VCO phase noise performance. Complete design steps including resonant network design and circuit topology selection are discussed and prototype designs have been demonstrated to verify the analysis. The proposed 12.8 GHz CCVCO design achieves phase noise of -116 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset, a tuning range of 31.4%, FOM and FOMT of 184 and 194 respectively.
  • Keywords
    network topology; phase noise; voltage-controlled oscillators; 4-port-inductor-based VCO coupling; circuit topology; phase noise reduction; resonant network design; Arrays; Delta modulation; Inductors; Phase noise; Topology; Tuning; Voltage-controlled oscillators; 4-Port; CMOS; Inductor; Phase Noise; VCO;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2010 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • ISSN
    0886-5930
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5758-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CICC.2010.5617437
  • Filename
    5617437
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2788315