An ultra low power 2.4GHz CMOS VCO

Author

Jou, Christina F. ; Cheng, Kuo-Hua ; Hsieh, Hsien-Cheng

Author_Institution

Inst. of Commun. Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

Volume

3

fYear

2003

fDate

14-17 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

1098

Abstract

A low power voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) for IEEE 802.11b direct conversion receiver is demonstrated. The VCO is fabricated by TSMC 0.25-μm; based on the measurement results, the tuning range is 187 MHz (7.78%); phase noise is -73.62dBc/Hz@600 kHz offset and -82.44dBc/Hz@1MHz offset at 2.4GHz. The circuit draws only 53μA current for the VCO core from a 1.5V supply.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; MMIC oscillators; UHF integrated circuits; UHF oscillators; circuit tuning; field effect MMIC; frequency synthesizers; integrated circuit noise; low-power electronics; phase noise; radio receivers; voltage-controlled oscillators; wireless LAN; 1.5 V; 2.4 GHz; 53 muA; CMOS VCO; IEEE 802.11b direct conversion receiver; TSMC medium doped process; cross-coupled negative-Gm topology; figure of merit; frequency synthesizer; phase noise; ultralow power voltage-controlled oscillator; Circuit synthesis; Circuit topology; Energy consumption; Inductors; MOSFETs; Noise measurement; Phase measurement; Phase noise; Tuning; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2003. ICECS 2003. Proceedings of the 2003 10th IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8163-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2003.1301702

Filename

1301702