IEICE Transactions on Electronics
Online ISSN : 1745-1353
Print ISSN : 0916-8524
Special Section on Analog Circuits and Related SoC Integration Technologies
A 5GHz Band Low Noise and Wide Tuning Range Si-CMOS VCO with a Novel Varactors Pair Circuit
Tuan Thanh TASuguru KAMEDATadashi TAKAGIKazuo TSUBOUCHI
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2010 Volume E93.C Issue 6 Pages 755-762

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In this paper, a fully integrated 5GHz voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) is presented. The VCO is designed with 0.18µm silicon complementary metal oxide semiconductor (Si-CMOS) process. To achieve low phase noise, a novel varactors pair circuit is proposed to cancel effects of capacitance fluctuation that makes harmonic currents which increase phase noise of VCO. The VCO with the proposed varactor circuit has tuning range from 5.1GHz to 6.1GHz (relative value of 17.9%) and phase noise of lower than −110.8dBc/Hz at 1MHz offset over the full tuning range. Figure-of-merit-with-tuning-range (FOMT) of the proposed VCO is −182dBc/Hz.

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