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A 0.35‐μm CMOS cross‐coupled complementary Colpitts voltage controlled oscillator
Author(s) -
Jang ShengLyang,
Liu WeiChih,
Chang ChiaWei,
Huang JhinFang
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.26192
Subject(s) - voltage controlled oscillator , colpitts oscillator , phase noise , cmos , dbc , electrical engineering , pmos logic , figure of merit , transistor , electronic engineering , voltage , engineering , optoelectronics , materials science , vackář oscillator
This article presents a differential cross‐coupled complementary Colpitts CMOS voltage‐controlled oscillator (VCO).The low phase noise CMOS VCO has been implemented with the TSMC 0.35‐μm 2P4M CMOS technology and adopts a pair of cross‐coupled PMOS transistors to achieve faster start‐up oscillation. The VCO operates from 6.16 to 6.5 GHz with 5.3% tuning range. The measured phase noise at 1 MHz offset is −121.12 dBc/Hz at 6.417 GHz. The power consumption of the VCO core is 6.16 mW. The figure of merit is −189.37 dBc/Hz. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett, 2011; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com. DOI 10.1002/mop.26192