Title :
Low Phase Noise Bond Wire VCO for DVB-H
Author :
Kim, Ki-Jin ; Ahn, K.H. ; Lim, T.H.
Author_Institution :
Korea Electron. Technol. Inst., Seongnam
Abstract :
A low phase noise VCO with the bond wire inductor for DVB-H is implemented in TSMC CMOS 0.18 mum process. The bond wire VCO exhibits -137 dBc/Hz @ 1MHz with the 5 mA current consumption. To meet the DVB-H phase noise requirement, bond wire modelling is introduced in this paper. Due to the bond wire characteristics, Q value of the VCO inductor is more than 25 at 1 GHz. The proposed bond wire inductor provides additional frequency tuning options after IC fabrication by modifying the length of the bond wire.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; digital video broadcasting; inductors; phase noise; voltage-controlled oscillators; DVB-H; IC fabrication; Q value; TSMC CMOS process; bond wire characteristics; bond wire inductor; bond wire modelling; current 5 mA; frequency 1 MHz; frequency tuning; low phase noise bond wire VCO; size 0.18 mum; Bonding; CMOS process; Digital video broadcasting; Frequency; Inductors; Phase noise; Semiconductor device modeling; Tuning; Voltage-controlled oscillators; Wire; DVB-H; bond wire; low phase noise;
Conference_Titel :
Electronic Design, Test and Applications, 2008. DELTA 2008. 4th IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3110-6
DOI :
10.1109/DELTA.2008.6
