A 14-GHz-Band Harmonic Tuned Low-Power Low-Phase-Noise VCO IC with a Novel Bias Feedback Circuit in 40-nm CMOS SOI

Fang, Mengchu; Yoshimasu, Toshihiko

doi:10.1109/rfic54546.2022.9863193

Cited by 3 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 8 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…As such, the difference between the PN of two VCOs gradually narrows until it becomes negligible at high offset frequencies near the PN floor. [4,12,14,15,30] operating at a similar frequency range and fabricated in a similar process node, the G m -enhanced LC VCO provides comparable performance while burning less power (Table 1).…”

Section: Characterization Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The G m -enhanced LC VCO shows a FoM of 195.2 dBc/Hz and 200.3 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz and 10 MHz offset, respectively, with a FoM T reaching 200.4 dBc/Hz and 205.2 dBc/Hz at respective offset frequencies, a significant improvement over those of the CVCO. Compared to the state-of-the-art LC CMOS VCOs[4,12,14,15,30] operating at a similar frequency range and fabricated in a similar process node, the G m -enhanced LC VCO provides comparable performance while burning less power (Table1).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

An Ultra-Low-Power 65 nm Single-Tank 24.5-to-29.1 GHz Gm-Enhanced CMOS LC VCO Achieving 195.2 dBc/Hz FoM at 1 MHz

Kurtoglu,

Shirazi,

Mirabbasi

et al. 2024

Electronics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

A low-power single-core 24.5-to-29.1 GHz CMOS LC voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) is presented. The proposed VCO uses an innovative differential cross-coupled architecture in which an additional pair is connected to the main pair to increase the effective transconductance, resulting in lower power consumption and reduced phase noise (PN). The proposed VCO is fabricated in a 1P9M standard CMOS process and sustains oscillation at 29.14 GHz with power consumption as low as 455 μW (650 μA from a 0.7 V supply), which is ~20% lower than a conventional CMOS LC VCO without Gm-enhanced differential pairs built through the same process (700 μA from 0.8 V supply). When consuming 880 μW (1.1 mA from 0.8 V), the proposed VCO exhibits a tuning range of 4.6 GHz (from 24.5 GHz to 29.1 GHz). Moreover, it exhibits a measured phase noise (PN) better than −106.5 dBc/Hz @ 1 MHz and −132.0 dBc/Hz @ 10 MHz, with figure-of-merit (FoM) results of 195.2 dBc/Hz and 200.3 dBc/Hz, respectively.

show abstract