Design issues of LC tuned oscillators for integrated transceivers

Author

Samori, C. ; Lacaita, A.L. ; Vita, P. ; Zanchi, A.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Elettronica e Inf., Politecnico di Milano, Italy

fYear

1998

fDate

19-21 Feb 1998

Firstpage

264

Lastpage

269

Abstract

VCO for wireless receivers must fulfil tight requirements of phase noise and their complete integration in silicon VLSI technologies is still an open issue due to the low quality factor of the inductors. In this paper we address some of the constraints met in the design of low noise oscillator stages: the tank topology and its quality factor, the dynamics of the transconductor stage and its loading effects, the limitation resulting from the AM-to-PM conversion

Keywords

Q-factor; VLSI; circuit tuning; integrated circuit noise; network topology; phase noise; transceivers; voltage-controlled oscillators; AM-to-PM conversion; LC tuned oscillators; Si; VCO; VLSI technologies; integrated transceivers; loading effects; low noise oscillator stages; phase noise; quality factor; tank topology; transconductor stage; Active noise reduction; Inductors; Noise generators; Phase noise; Q factor; Signal to noise ratio; Silicon; Topology; Transceivers; Transconductance; Transconductors; Very large scale integration; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI, 1998. Proceedings of the 8th Great Lakes Symposium on

Conference_Location

Lafayette, LA

ISSN

1066-1395

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8409-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLSV.1998.665253

Filename

665253