• DocumentCode
    2158555
  • Title

    A Fully Integrated 1.3GHz VCO for GSM in 0.25μm Standard CMOS with a Phasenoise of -- 142dBc/Hz at 3MHz Offset

  • Author

    Tiebout, Marc

  • Author_Institution
    Infineon Technologies AG, Department Wireless Products, Technology and Innovation, P.O. Box 800949, D-81609 Munich, Germany, Tel.: +49 89 234 53286, e-mail: marc.tiebout@infineon.com
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    4-6 Oct. 2000
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    A fully integrated voltage controlled oscillator for a 900MHz GSM heterodyne receiver with an IF at 400MHz is presented. The LC-VCO was designed in INFINEON low-cost 0.25μm 4 metal standard CMOS process, using an integrated fully symmetrical coil. The VCO consumes 7mA at a 2V supply voltage (14mW) and features a measured phasenoise of -- 142dBc/Hz at 3MHz offset or -- 112dBc/Hz at 100kHz, thus fulfilling GSM receive requirements. A very linear tuning characteristic of 200MHz is obtained through backgate-tuning of NMOS-varactors.
  • Keywords
    Bonding; CMOS process; Coils; Crosstalk; Energy consumption; Frequency; GSM; Inductors; Tuning; Voltage-controlled oscillators;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Conference, 2000. 30th European
  • Conference_Location
    Paris, France
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EUMA.2000.338892
  • Filename
    4139905