DocumentCode
1808180
Title
Efficiency design of a 10GHz CMOS oscillator
Author
Fu, Jeffrey S. ; Chiu, Hsien-Chin ; Ke, Po-Yu ; Feng, Wu-Shiung ; Chiang, Yi-Chyun
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chang Gung Univ., Taoyuan
Volume
2
fYear
2008
fDate
21-24 April 2008
Firstpage
859
Lastpage
861
Abstract
A fully on-chip transformer-based coupling 10 GHz CMOS oscillator is presented in this paper. By using on-chip transformer to reduce Si substrate loss of RF coupling and matching, a maximum DC-to-RF conversion efficiency of 16% with an output RF power of ~10 dBm at 9.98 GHz is achieved.
Keywords
CMOS integrated circuits; MMIC oscillators; elemental semiconductors; integrated circuit design; silicon; CMOS oscillator; DC-to-RF conversion efficiency; RF coupling; RF matching; frequency 10 GHz; frequency 9.98 GHz; on-chip transformer-based coupling; Batteries; CMOS technology; Coupling circuits; Equivalent circuits; Microwave oscillators; Parasitic capacitance; Power generation; Radio frequency; Testing; Transmitters;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology, 2008. ICMMT 2008. International Conference on
Conference_Location
Nanjing
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-1879-4
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-1880-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICMMT.2008.4540537
Filename
4540537
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