Reconfigurable concurrent oscillators for multi-band multi-mode wireless communication systems

The next generation of wireless communication is a ubiquitous radio system concept, providing wireless access from short-range to wide-area, with one single reconfigurable and adaptive system for all envisaged radio environments. This paper presents the design approach of RCO (reconfigurable concurrent oscillator) that simultaneously generates two or more signals of different frequencies that eliminate the need of lossy switches for switching the frequency band, thereby improves the system throughput. The measured phase noise for band#1 (2.3-2.6 GHz) and band#2 (4.6-5.2 GHz) are typically -130 dBc/Hz, and -120 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz offset from the carrier respectively; and to our knowledge, this is the best phase noise performance for this class of VCO (voltage controlled oscillators) by using MCPR (multi-coupled planar resonators) so far reported.