• DocumentCode
    439313
  • Title

    Fully-monolithic 3V SiGe differential voltage-controlled oscillators for 5GHz and 17GHz wireless applications

  • Author

    Plouchart, J.-O. ; Klepser, B.-U. ; Ainspan, H. ; Soyuer, M.

  • Author_Institution
    IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    22-24 Sept. 1998
  • Firstpage
    332
  • Lastpage
    335
  • Abstract
    Two fully integrated and differential SiGe VCOs were designed for 5 and 17GHz wireless applications. The measured phase noise for the 5GHz VCO is -94dBc/Hz at 100kHz offset with a single-ended output power of -1dBm. It has a tuning range of 15% with a control voltage from 0 to 3V, and a figure of merit of -178.1dBc/Hz. The center frequency change is 3.3% over 200°C temperature and ±10% supply voltage variation. The 17GHz VCO exhibits a -4dBm single ended output power, a phase noise of -84dBc/Hz at 100kHz offset, and a figure of merit of -176.2dBc/Hz. It has a tuning range of 3.6%. Both circuits dissipate a total power of 66mW (22mW in core) from 3V.
  • Keywords
    Germanium silicon alloys; Noise measurement; Phase measurement; Phase noise; Power generation; Power measurement; Silicon germanium; Temperature control; Tuning; Voltage-controlled oscillators;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Solid-State Circuits Conference, 1998. ESSCIRC '98. Proceedings of the 24th European
  • Conference_Location
    The Hague, The Netherlands
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ESSCIR.1998.186276
  • Filename
    1471033