標題: A Low Phase Noise Quadrature VCO Using Symmetrical Tail Current-Shaping Technique
作者: Shen, I-Shing
Huang, Tze-Che
Jou, Christina F.
電信工程研究所
Institute of Communications Engineering
關鍵字: CMOS integrated circuits;injection-locked oscillators (ILO);LC oscillators;phase noise;quadrature VCO (QVCO);radio frequency (RF);tail current-shaping
公開日期: 1-Jul-2010
摘要: 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.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LMWC.2010.2049438
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/5217
ISSN: 1531-1309
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2010.2049438
期刊: IEEE MICROWAVE AND WIRELESS COMPONENTS LETTERS
Volume: 20
Issue: 7
起始頁: 399
結束頁: 401
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