Design and implementation of a low power VCO for K-Band Application

Author

Her, Man-Long ; Wu, Pao-Hsun ; Huang, Chun-Yuan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. Eng., Feng-Chia Univ., Taichung, Taiwan

fYear

2012

fDate

23-27 July 2012

Firstpage

73

Lastpage

77

Abstract

A fully integrated low power voltage control oscillator K-Band application is presented in this letter. Using Gm-boosted architecture, the power consumption can be lower. In addition, the capacitive filtering technology can prevent the low frequency tail current noise converted into phase noise, the technology used to enhance the phase noise performance. The VCO design and implement in TSMC 0.18μm COMS technology with 1.5V supply voltage, the simulated power consumption is 15 mV, tuning range is 18.56 GHz ~ 17.51 GHz, phase noise at 1-MHz is -112 dBc/Hz, chip size is 0.496 * 0.678 μm².

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; MMIC oscillators; field effect MMIC; integrated circuit design; low-power electronics; phase noise; voltage-controlled oscillators; Gm-boosted architecture; K-band application; TSMC CMOS technology; VCO design; capacitive filtering technology; frequency 18.56 GHz to 17.51 GHz; fully-integrated low-power voltage control oscillator; low-frequency tail current noise; low-power VCO; phase noise; power consumption; size 0.18 mum; voltage 1.5 V; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; K-band; Phase noise; Voltage-controlled oscillators; Wireless communication; CMOS; K-band; Low Power; Oscillator; Phase Noise;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cross Strait Quad-Regional Radio Science and Wireless Technology Conference (CSQRWC), 2012

Conference_Location

New Taipei City

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1867-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSQRWC.2012.6294967

Filename

6294967