• DocumentCode
    2983821
  • Title

    A filtering technique to lower oscillator phase noise

  • Author

    Hegazi, E. ; Sjoland, H. ; Abidi, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    7-7 Feb. 2001
  • Firstpage
    364
  • Lastpage
    365
  • Abstract
    Test oscillators are implemented using the noise filtering schemes described: a top-biased and a tail-biased VCO for the 1GHz band, and a tail-biased VCO for the 2.2GHz band. These CMOS circuits are fabricated in the STMicroelectronics BiCMOS 6M process.
  • Keywords
    CMOS analogue integrated circuits; UHF integrated circuits; UHF oscillators; phase noise; voltage-controlled oscillators; 1 GHz; 2.2 GHz; BiCMOS 6M process; CMOS circuits; STMicroelectronics; filtering technique; oscillator phase noise; tail-biased VCO; top-biased VCO; Circuit noise; Circuit optimization; Filtering; MOS capacitors; Noise figure; Noise measurement; Phase measurement; Phase noise; Semiconductor device measurement; Voltage-controlled oscillators;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2001. Digest of Technical Papers. ISSCC. 2001 IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA, USA
  • ISSN
    0193-6530
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6608-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISSCC.2001.912675
  • Filename
    912675