Title :
A 1V 600μW 2.1GHz Quadrature VCO Using BAW Resonators
Author :
Rai, Shailesh ; Otis, Brian
Author_Institution :
Washington Univ., Seattle, WA
Abstract :
A 1V 600muW BAW-tuned quadrature VCO designed in 0.13mum CMOS is presented. The BAW QVCO operates at 2.1GHz and achieves a phase noise of -143.5dBc/Hz at 1MHz offset with a FOM of 212.1dB. The QVCO uses time-varying source degeneration to quadrature-couple the two VCO cores.
Keywords :
bulk acoustic wave devices; resonators; voltage-controlled oscillators; 0.13 micron; 1 V; 2.1 GHz; 600 muW; BAW resonators; quadrature VCO; time-varying source degeneration; Capacitors; Energy consumption; Frequency; Phase noise; Power supplies; Semiconductor device modeling; Signal generators; Transceivers; Tuning; 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.2007.373551
