A 1.7-mW, 16.8% frequency tuning, 24-GHz transformer-based LC-VCO using 0.18-µm CMOS technology

Author

Kuo, Yen-Hung ; Tsai, Jeng-Han ; Huang, Tian-Wei

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2009

fDate

7-9 June 2009

Firstpage

79

Lastpage

82

Abstract

A low-power, wide-tuning-range voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) using 0.18-mum CMOS technology is presented in this paper. The proposed transformer-based LC-VCO has 16.8% frequency tuning range without switching techniques. To achieve wide-tuning-range and low-power in the same time, the current-reused topology is selected to demonstrate a low-power consumption of 1.7 mW. The VCO oscillation frequency at 22.6 GHz has a phase noise of -95 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; circuit tuning; field effect MMIC; high-frequency transformers; low-power electronics; voltage-controlled oscillators; CMOS technology; current-reused topology; frequency 22.6 GHz; frequency 24 GHz; frequency tuning; low power voltage-controlled oscillator; low-power consumption; oscillation frequency; power 1.7 mW; size 0.18 mum; transformer-based LC-VCO; CMOS technology; Capacitors; Current supplies; Frequency; MOS devices; MOSFETs; Phase noise; Topology; Tuning; Voltage-controlled oscillators; CMOS; low power; voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO); wide-tuning-range;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, 2009. RFIC 2009. IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3377-3

Electronic_ISBN

1529-2517

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2009.5135494

Filename

5135494