A 5.3GHz low-phase-noise LC VCO with harmonic filtering resistor
Journal
Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
Pages
3237-3240
Date Issued
2006
Date
2006
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Abstract
This paper presents a new harmonic filtering technique to lower the phase noise of CMOS LC voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) based on loaded-Q improvement approach. A single resistor was used at the drain node of the bias transistor instead of extra inductors and capacitors. The wide-band nature of resistance can suppress the second harmonic as well as other even harmonics leaking from the LC tank across the full period of oscillation, thus preserve the loaded quality factor of the LC tank As a proof of concept, a completely integrated 5.3GHz all PMOS LC VCO was implemented in a 0.18μm BiCMOS process. The simulation result shows the achieved phase noise of -129.5 dBc/Hz at 1-MHz offset and -110 dBc/Hz at 100-KHz offset and -86 dBc/Hz at 10-KHz while the VCO core draws 5mA from a 1.8V supply. The circuit is being fabricated with Jazz semiconductor. © 2006 IEEE.
Other Subjects
Bias transistor; Jazz semiconductor; Loaded-Q improvement; Bias currents; Harmonic analysis; Resistors; Variable frequency oscillators; Phase noise
Type
conference paper
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