A 24GHz Low Phase Noise Voltage-Controlled Oscillator with Wide Tuning-Range and Low Power

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作者
Yang Dongxu [1 ]
Wang Hongrui [1 ]
Zeng Dajie [2 ]
Zhang Li [1 ]
Zhang Lei [1 ]
Yu Zhiping [1 ]
机构
[1] Tsinghua Univ, Inst Microelect, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China
[2] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Sinano, Suzhou 215002, Peoples R China
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CHINESE JOURNAL OF ELECTRONICS | 2012年 / 21卷 / 01期
关键词
Voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO); Phase noise; CMOS; mm-Wave; VCO;
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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摘要
A 24GHz Voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) was designed and fabricated in 90nm CMOS technology. New features of this VCO include a tail current source to reduce the power consumption and a noise filter to prevent phase noise degradation. Measurement of the finished chip shows that it has a tuning range of 22.5-26.3GHz (16.9%) and achieves a phase noise performance of -103dBc/Hz at 1MHz offset. The entire circuit of VCO with output buffer consumes 8mA current from 1.2V power supply. The FOM of the VCO is -180dB.
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