DocumentCode
481569
Title
Fully integrated voltage controlled oscillator for novel high-precision local positioning system
Author
Ussmueller, Thomas ; Weigel, Robert
Author_Institution
Inst. for Electron. Eng., Friedrich-Alexander Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Nuremberg
fYear
2008
fDate
27-28 Oct. 2008
Firstpage
218
Lastpage
221
Abstract
This paper describes a voltage controlled oscillator optimized for application in a local positioning system. Instead of the traditional VCO topologies an improved version of the Colpitts-oscillator in common-gate configuration has been built. The VCO has a very good figure of merit of -186 dBc/Hz. It has a center frequency of 6.1 GHz and the measured phase-noise is -117 dBc/Hz at an offset frequency of 1 MHz. The power consumption of the presented VCO is only 5 mW.
Keywords
microwave integrated circuits; position control; Colpitts-oscillator; common-gate configuration; frequency 6.1 GHz; fully integrated oscillator; local positioning system; power 5 mW; voltage controlled oscillator; Energy consumption; Fabrication; Field programmable gate arrays; Production facilities; Radar; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency integrated circuits; Switches; Voltage-controlled oscillators; Wireless communication;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Wireless Technology, 2008. EuWiT 2008. European Conference on
Conference_Location
Amsterdam
Print_ISBN
978-2-87487-008-8
Type
conf
Filename
4753846
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