A 16-GHz 0.18μm CMOS differential colpitts VCO with a moderate output power for DS-UWB and 60-GHz applications

Author

Lee, C.-C. ; Lu, C.-L. ; Chuang, H.-R.

Author_Institution

Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan

fYear

2006

fDate

12-15 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

1132

Lastpage

1135

Abstract

A 16-GHz CMOS differential Colpitts VCO fabricated with the 0.18 mum 1P6M process is presented. This VCO is composed of a PMOS transistor-pair core circuit and two source follower output buffers. The VCO can operate at 16.5 GHz, and the measured phase noise at 1-MHz offset is -115 dBc/Hz. The power consumption of the VCO core is 12.6 mW. Compared with previous reported works, this VCO has a much higher output power of -0.9 dBm at 16.5 GHz.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; buffer circuits; transistor circuits; ultra wideband technology; voltage-controlled oscillators; 1P6M process; CMOS differential Colpitis VCO; PMOS transistor-pair core circuit; direct-sequence ultra-wideband; frequency 16 GHz; frequency 16.5 GHz; frequency 60 GHz; power 12.6 mW; size 18 micron; source follower output buffer; CMOS process; Circuits; Energy consumption; MOSFETs; Noise measurement; Phase measurement; Phase noise; Power generation; Power measurement; Voltage-controlled oscillators; 0.18μm; 60-GHz WPAN; CMOS; UWB; differential Colpitts VCO;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2006. APMC 2006. Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Yokohama

Print_ISBN

978-4-902339-08-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-4-902339-11-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2006.4429607

Filename

4429607