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A complementary cross‐coupled quadrature VCO using ring‐inductor coupling method
Author(s) -
Jang ShengLyang,
Lin SanSheng,
Chang ChiaWei,
Hsu ShihHsiang
Publication year - 2012
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.26714
Subject(s) - phase noise , dbc , voltage controlled oscillator , inductor , cmos , transconductance , electrical engineering , microwave , voltage , resonator , optoelectronics , physics , materials science , transistor , engineering , telecommunications
A high‐performance quadrature voltage‐controlled oscillator (QVCO) with ring inductor is studied. The QVCO uses a closed‐loop ring inductor and is composed of two complementary negative transconductance cells to replenish the energy loss due to the resistive LC resonator and is implemented in a standard TSMC 90 nm 1P9M CMOS technology. This QVCO operates between 7.05 and 8.15 GHz. The measured phase noise of the VCO operating at 8.15 GHz is −119.98 dBc/Hz at 1‐MHz offset while the QVCO draws 4.2 mA and 3.57 mW consumption from a supply voltage of 0.85 V. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 54:839–842, 2012; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com. DOI 10.1002/mop.26714