IEICE Transactions on Electronics
Online ISSN : 1745-1353
Print ISSN : 0916-8524
Special Section on Analog Circuits and Related SoC Integration Technologies
A Wide-Tunable LC-Based Voltage-Controlled Oscillator Using a Divide-by-N Injection-Locked Frequency Divider
Shoichi HARAKenichi OKADAAkira MATSUZAWA
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Keywords: CMOS, VCO, divider, inductor
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2010 Volume E93.C Issue 6 Pages 763-769

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This paper proposes a novel wideband voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) for multi-band transceivers. The proposed oscillator has a core VCO and a tuning-range extension circuit, which consists of an injection-locked frequency divider (ILFD) and flip flop dividers. The two-stage differential ILFD generates quadrature outputs and realizes two, three, four, and six of divide ratio with very wide output frequency range. The proposed circuit is implemented by using a 90nm CMOS process, and the chip area is 250 × 200µm2. The measured result achieves continuous frequency tuning range of 9.3MHz-to-5.7GHz (199%) with −210dBc/Hz of figure-of-merit (FoM T).

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