A 5.2 GHz tunable synchronous oscillator for IEEE 802.11a applications

Author

Hellmuth, Patrick ; Begueret, Jean Baptiste ; Lapuyade, Hervé ; Mazouffre, Olivier ; Deval, Yann

Author_Institution

IXL Lab., Univ. of Bordeaux, France

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

20-23 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

153

Abstract

A low power 5.2 GHz Synchronous Oscillator (SO) is presented. This SO has been fully implemented in a 0.25 μm SiGe BiCMOS technology and is dedicated for 802.11a WLAN applications. The use of body effect provides a tunable oscillator in order to control the free running oscillation. Under 1.8 V supply and at 5.2 GHz, the core of the SO consumes 9 mW for a -114 dBc/Hz phase noise at 100 kHz from the carrier and offers 400 MHz synchronization bandwidth.

Keywords

BiCMOS analogue integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; IEEE standards; MMIC oscillators; circuit tuning; phase noise; synchronisation; telecommunication standards; wireless LAN; 1.8 V; 400 MHz; 5.2 GHz; BiCMOS technology; IEEE 802.11a WLAN; SiGe; bipolar cross-coupled pair; body effect; free running oscillation; frequency synthesis; low power oscillator; tunable synchronous oscillator; Bandwidth; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Circuit synthesis; Frequency synchronization; Frequency synthesizers; Germanium silicon alloys; Local oscillators; Phase noise; Silicon germanium; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference, 2003. IMOC 2003. Proceedings of the 2003 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Foz do Iguacu, Brazil

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7824-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMOC.2003.1244849

Filename

1244849