Title :
Performances and trends in millimeter-wave CMOS voltage controlled oscillators
Author :
Voicu, Mihail ; Pepe, Domenico ; Zito, Domenico
Author_Institution :
Tyndall Nat. Inst., Cork, Ireland
Abstract :
A review on millimeter-wave CMOS voltage controlled oscillators is presented in this paper. Current state of the art implementations are reviewed and their performances are compared. Low power and low phase noise LC-VCO and ring oscillator designs are analyzed and discussed. VCO design and performance trends over the last years are provided and discussed. The review shows how in the higher region of the millimetre-wave frequency spectrum over 60 GHz ring oscillators exhibit performance close and comparable to those achievable by LC-VCOs.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; millimetre wave oscillators; phase noise; voltage-controlled oscillators; frequency 60 GHz; low phase noise LC-VCO; low power LC-VCO design; millimeter-wave CMOS voltage controlled oscillators; millimetre-wave frequency spectrum; ring oscillator designs; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Market research; Millimeter wave technology; Ring oscillators; Voltage-controlled oscillators;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), 2012 19th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seville
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1261-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1259-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICECS.2012.6463669
