A mm-Wave 40 nm CMOS Subharmonically Injection-Locked QVCO with Lock Detection

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Mangraviti, Giovanni [1 ,2 ]
Parvais, Bertrand [1 ]
Shi, Qixian [1 ,2 ]
Vidojkovic, Vojkan [1 ]
Libois, Michael [1 ]
Vandersteen, Gerd [3 ]
Wambacq, Piet [1 ,2 ]
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[1] IMEC, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium
[2] Vrije Univ Brussel VUB, Dept Elect & Informat ETRO, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
[3] Vrije Univ Brussel VUB, Dept Fundamental Elect & Instrumentat ELEC, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2013 IEEE ASIAN SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS CONFERENCE (A-SSCC) | 2013年
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This paper demonstrates a 40 nm CMOS mm-wave subharmonically injection-locked QVCO with a lock detection mechanism. The locking range is more than 2 GHz over the 55-63 GHz tuning range. An envelope detector simplifies the calibration of the QVCO. In addition, the lock detector, based on passive mixing, detects the lock condition simply by a change in the DC operating point. The large locking range, the large tunability and the combination of envelope detector and lock detector offer a simple approach for robust mm-wave frequency synthesis based on subharmonic injection locking.
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