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A Low Phase Noise Quadrature VCO Using Symmetrical Tail Current-Shaping Technique
(2010-07-01)
Shen, I-Shing
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Huang, Tze-Che
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Jou, Christina F.
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電信工程研究所
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Institute of Communications Engineering
This letter presents a new symmetrical tail current-shaping technique to improve the phase noise of a quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator (QVCO). This proposed QVCO consists of two first-harmonic injection-locked oscillators (ILOs) and the outputs are injected back to the gates of the QVCO's tail transistors in order to shape the tail currents. A switching current path is provided between the two tail current sources in order to eliminate the asymmetric phenomenon of the tail currents. The measured phase noise can be improved by 4 dB using this technique. This CMOS LC-tank QVCO has been implemented using the TSMC 0.18 mu m mixed-signal/RF CMOS 1P6M technology and the die area is 0.7 x 1.1 mm(2). The total power consumption is 11.2 mW at the supply voltage of 1.4 V. The measured phase noise at 1 MHz offset is -119.3 dBc/Hz at the oscillation frequency of 5.28 GHz. The figure of merit (FOM) of the proposed QVCO is -183 dBc/Hz.