• DocumentCode
    3697958
  • Title

    A robust low phase noise Ku band VCO with 23.3% tuning range for E-band and V-band backhaul transceivers

  • Author

    Run Levinger;Oded Katz;Jakob Vovnoboy;Roee Ben-Yishay;Roi Carmon;Benny Shienman;Nadav Mazor;Danny Elad

  • Author_Institution
    IBM Haifa Labs, Haifa University Campus, Carmel Mountains, 31905, Israel
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    5/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    395
  • Lastpage
    396
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a Ku band Gm boosted Colpitts VCO designed in IBM 0.13µm SiGe BiCMOS8hp technology for E-Band and V-band backhaul transceivers. The VCO achieves 23.3% tuning range, covering 15.2 – 19.2 GHz while maintaining low phase noise. Measured phase noise at 10 MHz is lower than −133 dBc/Hz at 25°C. The VCO shows robust behaviour to temperature variations, with a measured frequency drift of less than 15 ppm/°C. The power consumption is 51.4mW and calculated FOM is −183.5 dBc/Hz.
  • Keywords
    "Voltage-controlled oscillators","Phase noise","Frequency measurement","Temperature measurement","Tuning","Transceivers","Robustness"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2015 IEEE
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/RFIC.2015.7337788
  • Filename
    7337788
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3697958