A resonant-mode switchable VCO with 47.6–71.0 GHz tuning range based on π-type LC network

Author

Haikun Jia ; Baoyong Chi ; Lixue Kuang ; Zhihua Wang

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microelectron., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2013

fDate

11-13 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

321

Lastpage

324

Abstract

A wide tuning range resonant-mode switchable voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) based on π-type LC network is proposed. By proper configuring the switched negative resistance, the VCO can oscillate at the even mode or odd mode of the π-type LC network, thus the frequency tuning range is greatly increased. The proposed VCO has been implemented in 65 nm CMOS, and achieves a measured tuning range of 39%, from 47.6 to 71.0 GHz. The VCO consumes 10.4mA current from 1.0V power supply, excluding the output buffers. The measured phase noise is -110.3dBc/Hz@47.6 GHz at 10MHz offset.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; LC circuits; circuit tuning; field effect MIMIC; millimetre wave oscillators; voltage-controlled oscillators; π-type LC network; CMOS technology; current 10.4 mA; frequency 47.6 GHz to 71.0 GHz; frequency tuning range; millimetre wave oscillators; resonant-mode switchable voltage controlled oscillator; switched negative resistance; voltage 1.0 V; Couplings; Impedance; Inductance; Resonant frequency; Switches; Tuning; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), 2013 IEEE Asian

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0277-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASSCC.2013.6691047

Filename

6691047