A low-phase-noise low-phase-error 1.8 GHz quadrature CMOS VCO

Summary, in English

A low-phase-noise low-phase-error 1.8 GHz quadrature CMOS VCO was presented. The VCO with three metal layers showed -140 dBc/Hz or less phase noise across an 18% tuning range while drawing 25 mA from a 2 V power supply. The VCO showed high phase-noise figure-of-merit and low phase-error.

• Author: Pietro Andreani
• Department/s: Department of Electrical and Information Technology
• Publishing year: 2002
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference -Digest of Technical Papers
• Volume: 1
• Links: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/7787/21411/00993046.pdf; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2002.993046
• Document type: Conference paper
• Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
• Topic: Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
• Keywords: Phase noise
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 0193-6530; ISBN: 0-7803-7335-9; CODEN: DTPCDE