High performance flip-chip multi-mode, multi-band VCO IC using a standard low cost BiCMOS process

Author

Lovelace, D. ; Disilvestro, R.

Author_Institution

Semicond. Products Sector, Motorola Inc., Tempe, AZ, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

20-22 May 2001

Firstpage

57

Lastpage

60

Abstract

A low cost, high performance flip-chip multi-mode, multi-band voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) IC is presented. This IC is suitable for high performance VCO circuits over a wide range of frequencies. A novel noise reduction circuit technique is used to obtain improved phase noise performance without the use of a higher cost SiGe BiCMOS processes. This IC has a measured phase noise of -162 dBc/Hz at a 20 MHz offset operating at an oscillation frequency of 900 MHz with an output power of +10 dBm.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; UHF integrated circuits; UHF oscillators; flip-chip devices; integrated circuit noise; interference suppression; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; phase noise; voltage-controlled oscillators; 0.4 micron; 900 MHz; flip-chip VCO IC; multi-band VCO IC; multi-mode VCO IC; noise reduction circuit technique; phase noise performance; standard low cost BiCMOS process; voltage controlled oscillator IC; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Costs; Frequency; Germanium silicon alloys; Integrated circuit noise; Noise reduction; Phase noise; Power measurement; Silicon germanium; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, 2001. Digest of Papers. 2001 IEEE

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ, USA

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6601-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2001.935641

Filename

935641