• DocumentCode
    2215295
  • Title

    A 1.8 GHz Fully Integrated Low Voltage LC VCO in Silicon on Sapphire CMOS

  • Author

    Bhatia, Rahul ; Jalan, Umesh ; Chakraborty, Sudipto ; Yoon, Sang-Woong ; Nuttinck, Sebastien ; Pinel, Stephane ; Laskar, Joy

  • Author_Institution
    Georgia Institute of Technology, Yamacraw Design Center, 791 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA, bhatia@ece.gatech.edu
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    Oct. 2003
  • Firstpage
    579
  • Lastpage
    582
  • Abstract
    This paper presents the design, fabrication and measurement of a low voltage VCO operating at 1.8 GHz and fabricated in 0.5¿m Silicon On Sapphire CMOS (SOS-CMOS) process. The VCO operates with supply voltage as low as 1V. The tuning range was measured to be 14% and the measured phase noise was -117.5 dBc/ Hz at an offset frequency of 1 MHz from the 1.77 GHz carrier. The VCO and the buffers consume 14.7 mW power from a 1.5V supply.
  • Keywords
    CMOS process; Fabrication; Frequency measurement; Low voltage; Noise measurement; Phase measurement; Phase noise; Silicon; Tuning; Voltage-controlled oscillators;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Conference, 2003 33rd European
  • Conference_Location
    Munich, Germany
  • Print_ISBN
    1-58053-834-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EUMA.2003.341019
  • Filename
    4143083