Title :
A filtering technique to lower oscillator phase noise
Author :
Hegazi, E. ; Sjoland, H. ; Abidi, A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
Test oscillators are implemented using the noise filtering schemes described: a top-biased and a tail-biased VCO for the 1GHz band, and a tail-biased VCO for the 2.2GHz band. These CMOS circuits are fabricated in the STMicroelectronics BiCMOS 6M process.
Keywords :
CMOS analogue integrated circuits; UHF integrated circuits; UHF oscillators; phase noise; voltage-controlled oscillators; 1 GHz; 2.2 GHz; BiCMOS 6M process; CMOS circuits; STMicroelectronics; filtering technique; oscillator phase noise; tail-biased VCO; top-biased VCO; Circuit noise; Circuit optimization; Filtering; MOS capacitors; Noise figure; Noise measurement; Phase measurement; Phase noise; Semiconductor device measurement; Voltage-controlled oscillators;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2001. Digest of Technical Papers. ISSCC. 2001 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6608-5
DOI :
10.1109/ISSCC.2001.912675
