A 52–66GHz subharmonically injection-locked quadrature oscillator with 10GHz locking range in 40nm LP CMOS

Author

Mangraviti, G. ; Parvais, B. ; Vidojkovic, V. ; Vaesen, K. ; Szortyka, V. ; Khalaf, K. ; Soens, C. ; Vandersteen, G. ; Wambacq, P.

Author_Institution

imec, Leuven, Belgium

fYear

2012

fDate

17-19 June 2012

Firstpage

309

Lastpage

312

Abstract

A mm-wave subharmonically injection-locked quadrature oscillator is demonstrated in a 40nm low-power (LP) digital CMOS technology. A large locking range (10GHz), tunable over the 52-66GHz band, is achieved using transformer-coupled resonators. A simple calibration scheme is proposed that only relies on a relative power measurement of the oscillator output signal. The wide locking range, the wide tunability and the simple calibration scheme make this injection-locked quadrature oscillator design suitable for frequency synthesis in mm-wave CMOS communication systems.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; calibration; frequency synthesizers; injection locked oscillators; low-power electronics; microwave integrated circuits; microwave oscillators; microwave resonators; millimetre wave integrated circuits; millimetre wave oscillators; millimetre wave resonators; transformers; LP digital CMOS technology; frequency 10 GHz; frequency 52 GHz to 66 GHz; frequency synthesis; locking range; low-power digital CMOS technology; mmwave CMOS communication system; mmwave subharmonically injection-locked quadrature oscillator; oscillator output signal; relative power measurement; simple calibration scheme; size 40 nm; transformer-coupled resonator; CMOS integrated circuits; Calibration; Impedance; Injection-locked oscillators; Resonant frequency; Transceivers; 60GHz; coupled resonator; injection-locked oscillator; locking range; millimeter wave circuits; subharmonic injection locking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Montreal, QC

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0413-9

Electronic_ISBN

1529-2517

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2012.6242288

Filename

6242288