A 1.3V Low Phase Noise 2-GHz CMOS Quadrature LC VCO

Author

Upadhyaya, Parag ; Heo, Deukhyoun ; Chen, Yi-Jan Emery

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA

fYear

2006

fDate

10-13 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

169

Lastpage

172

Abstract

A 2 GHz quadrature CMOS LC voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) has been designed in a standard 0.18-mum SiGe-BiCMOS process for direct conversion transceiver. Consuming total 8.5 mA of current from a 1.3 V power supply, the quadrature VCO achieves a measured single-sideband phase noise of -120 dBc/Hz at 1.0 MHz offset frequency. The VCO achieves -3 dBm of carrier power to a 50-ohm load and tuning range of 300 MHz to meet requirements for the WCDMA standard. Series-coupled technique for achieving quadrature phase lock with low phase error (< 0.6deg) and low phase noise is presented

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; phase noise; transceivers; voltage-controlled oscillators; 0.18 micron; 1.3 V; 2 GHz; 300 MHz; 8.5 mA; BiCMOS process; CMOS quadrature LCVCO; LC voltage controlled oscillator; direct conversion transceiver; low phase noise; quadrature phase lock; series-coupled technique; single-sideband phase noise; CMOS process; Current measurement; Frequency measurement; Noise measurement; Phase measurement; Phase noise; Power measurement; Power supplies; Transceivers; Voltage-controlled oscillators; CMOS; Jazz 0.18-Â¿m; LC VCO; Phase Noise; Quadrature VCO; VCO;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, 2006. The 1st

Conference_Location

Manchester

Print_ISBN

2-9600551-8-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMICC.2006.282778

Filename

4057601