Title : 
Design of voltage control oscillator for 5.2 GHz in 0.35 μm SiGe BiCMOS technology
         
        
            Author : 
Chen, Wen-Shan ; Hsieh, Hsin-Yen ; Lin, Chi-Huang
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Southern Taiwan Univ., Tainan
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper presents the design and the exploratory measurements of a fully integrated VCO for 5.2 GHz applications. The presented circuit is implemented in 0.35 μm SiGe BiCMOS technology from TSMC. The current drawn from 2.5 V is 19mA for the VCO. It has a tuning range of 900 MHz with a control voltage from 0 to 2 V. The measured phase noise is -108.6 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset from the 5.2 GHz, and a figure of merit of-166.15 dBc/Hz were obtained. The measured output power at 5.2 GHz are -18.8 dBm.
         
        
            Keywords : 
BiCMOS integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit measurement; microwave integrated circuits; microwave oscillators; voltage-controlled oscillators; BiCMOS technology; SiGe; TSMC; VCO design; current 19 mA; frequency 5.2 GHz; phase noise measurement; power measurement; size 0.35 μm; tuning; voltage 2.5 V; voltage control oscillator; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Circuit optimization; Germanium silicon alloys; Integrated circuit measurements; Integrated circuit technology; Noise measurement; Silicon germanium; Tuning; Voltage control; Voltage-controlled oscillators;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits, 2007. EDSSC 2007. IEEE Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Tainan
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-0636-4
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-0637-1
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/EDSSC.2007.4450285