{"title":"A 2.2 GHz CMOS VCO with inductive degeneration noise suppression","authors":"P. Andreani, H. Sjöland","doi":"10.1109/CICC.2001.929754","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A 1.4 V, 9 mA monolithic LC-tank voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) fabricated in a standard 0.35 /spl mu/m CMOS process is presented. The VCO is tunable between 2.0 GHz and 2.37 GHz, and displays a phase noise between -140 dBc/Hz and -138 dBc/Hz at a 3 MHz offset frequency across the whole tuning range. This low phase noise is achieved through the use of an on-chip LC filter and an off-chip low frequency inductor, which totally remove the noise of the tail current source. The phase noise improvement due to the off-chip inductor is between 2 dB and 6 dB, increasing with higher oscillation frequencies.","PeriodicalId":101717,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE 2001 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (Cat. No.01CH37169)","volume":"252 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2001-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"50","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the IEEE 2001 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (Cat. No.01CH37169)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CICC.2001.929754","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 50
Abstract
A 1.4 V, 9 mA monolithic LC-tank voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) fabricated in a standard 0.35 /spl mu/m CMOS process is presented. The VCO is tunable between 2.0 GHz and 2.37 GHz, and displays a phase noise between -140 dBc/Hz and -138 dBc/Hz at a 3 MHz offset frequency across the whole tuning range. This low phase noise is achieved through the use of an on-chip LC filter and an off-chip low frequency inductor, which totally remove the noise of the tail current source. The phase noise improvement due to the off-chip inductor is between 2 dB and 6 dB, increasing with higher oscillation frequencies.