IEICE Transactions on Electronics
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An AM-PM Noise Mitigation Technique in Class-C VCO
Kento KIMURAAravind THARAYIL NARAYANANKenichi OKADAAkira MATSUZAWA
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2015 Volume E98.C Issue 12 Pages 1161-1170

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This paper presents a 20GHz Class-C VCO using a noise sensitivity mitigation technique. A radio frequency Class-C VCO suffers from the AM-PM conversion, caused by the non-linear capacitance of cross coupled pair. In this paper, the phase noise degradation mechanism is discussed, and a desensitization technique of AM-PM noise is proposed. In the proposed technique, AM-PM sensitivity is canceled by tuning the tail impedance, which consists of 4-bit resistor switches. A 65-nm CMOS prototype of the proposed VCO demonstrates the oscillation frequency from 19.27 to 22.4GHz, and the phase noise of -105.7dBc/Hz at 1-MHz offset with the power dissipation of 6.84mW, which is equivalent to a Figure-of-Merit of -183.73dBc/Hz.

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