A 45-GHz Rotary-Wave Voltage-Controlled Oscillator

Author

Nouri, Neda ; Buckwalter, James F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of British Columbia, Calgary, BC, Canada

Volume

59

Issue

2

fYear

2011

Firstpage

383

Lastpage

392

Abstract

A millimeter-wave rotary-wave oscillator (RWO) is presented that hybridizes standing- and traveling-wave behavior. This paper presents an analysis of the phase noise of this RWO. The multiphase voltage-controlled RWO is implemented in a 0.12-μm SiGe BiCMOS process using only nMOS devices for the oscillator core. The measured frequency of operation is 45 GHz with 6.5% tuning range and has a phase noise of -91 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz and -112 dBc/Hz at 10 MHz. The power consumption of the oscillator core is 13.8 mW from a supply voltage of 1.2 V.

Keywords

BiCMOS analogue integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; MIMIC; millimetre wave oscillators; phase noise; semiconductor materials; voltage-controlled oscillators; BiCMOS process; SiGe; frequency 1 MHz; frequency 10 MHz; frequency 45 GHz; millimeter-wave RWO; multiphase voltage-controlled RWO; nMOS devices; phase noise analysis; power 13.8 mW; rotary-wave voltage-controlled oscillator; size 0.12 mum; standing-wave behavior; traveling-wave behavior; voltage 1.2 V; Rotary-wave oscillator (RWO); standing-wave oscillator (SWO); voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9480

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMTT.2010.2097712

Filename

5680623