Title :
A 4.5GHz LC-VCO with Self-Regulating Technique
Author :
Dec, Aleksander ; Suyama, Ken ; Kitamura, Tomomitsu
Author_Institution :
Epoch Microelectron., Hawthorne, NY
Abstract :
A 1.8mA, -116dBc/Hz phase noise at 1MHz offset, 4.1-to-5.1GHz LC-VCO is implemented in 0.18mum SOI BiCMOS process. A low supply pushing of 800kHz/V is achieved with the proposed self-regulating technique without using any large internal or external capacitors.
Keywords :
BiCMOS integrated circuits; microwave oscillators; silicon-on-insulator; voltage-controlled oscillators; 0.18 micron; 1.8 mA; 4.1 to 5.1 GHz; LC-VCO; SOI BiCMOS process; capacitors; self-regulating technique; voltage controlled oscillator; Capacitors; Circuits; Phase noise; Photonic band gap; Regulators; Resistors; Temperature; Tuning; Voltage; Voltage-controlled oscillators;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2007. ISSCC 2007. Digest of Technical Papers. IEEE International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0853-9
Electronic_ISBN :
0193-6530
DOI :
10.1109/ISSCC.2007.373602
