Title :
A 16-nm FinFET 16-GHz differential LC-VCO
Author :
Ioannis Zographopoulos;Fotis Plessas;Emmanouil A. Antonopoulos;Fotis Foukalas
Author_Institution :
Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
Abstract :
In this paper, a 16-GHz FinFET differential Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (VCO) is presented. Filtering is used at the common source node of the cross-coupled transistors as well as other techniques to effectively lower phase noise. The oscillator is designed using 16nm FinFET Predictive Technology Models (PTMs) [1], achieves -106.553dBc/Hz at 1MHz offset, and dissipates 1.071mA from a 0.85V supply.
Keywords :
"Phase noise","Inductors","Filtering","Q-factor","Tuning","FinFETs"
Conference_Titel :
Microwaves, Communications, Antennas and Electronic Systems (COMCAS), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/COMCAS.2015.7360451
