A 3-V 4-GHz nMOS voltage-controlled oscillator with integrated resonator

被引:14
作者
Soyuer, M [1 ]
Jenkins, KA [1 ]
Burghartz, JN [1 ]
Hulvey, MD [1 ]
机构
[1] IBM CORP,DIV MICROELECT,ESSEX JCT,VT 05452
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10.1109/4.545829
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
A 4-GHz fully-monolithic nMOS voltage-controlled oscillator circuit implemented ire a 0.5-mu m BiCMOS technology is presented, The tuning range is 9% with an on-chip varactor-tuned resonator and a control voltage of 0-3 V. The measured phase noise is -85 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz and -106 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset, The circuit draws 8 mA from st 3 V supply including the reference branch bias current. Even with the supply voltage and the variation in control voltage reduced to 2.3 V, the VCO has a tuning range of 8%.
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