Performance and cost estimations of packaged single band voltage controlled oscillators

Author

Michielsen, W. ; Shen, Meigen ; Zheng, L.-R. ; Tenhunen, H.

Author_Institution

Electron. Syst. Design Lab., R. Inst. of Technol., Stockholm, Sweden

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

31 May-2 June 2004

Firstpage

53

Abstract

This paper reports the performance and cost estimations in the early stage of a LC tank based voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) design. system-on-chip (SoC) versus system-on-package (SoP) configurations are compared for electrical performance and cost of a 1.25 GHz voltage controlled oscillator. It is found that a single chip design is not always the best solution. We obtained the best figure of merit for a SoP implementation where only the inductors were put off-chip.

Keywords

UHF oscillators; network synthesis; system-on-chip; voltage-controlled oscillators; 1.25 GHz; LC tank based voltage controlled oscillator; packaged single band voltage controlled oscillator; system-on-chip; system-on-package; Capacitors; Costs; Germanium silicon alloys; Inductors; Integrated circuit interconnections; Packaging; Radio frequency; Silicon germanium; Varactors; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies: Frontiers of Mobile and Wireless Communication, 2004. Proceedings of the IEEE 6th Circuits and Systems Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7938-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CASSET.2004.1322915

Filename

1322915