{"title":"Frequency Sensitivity of Integrated Oscillators to Nearby Conductors","authors":"Amit Jha, K. O","doi":"10.1109/SiRF51851.2021.9383397","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A measurement setup including a metal plate probe mounted on a micrometer-controlled positioner is used to quantify the effects of surrounding to voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) characteristics. Including a metal ring shield around the inductor of LC-VCO and placing components underneath the inductor to reduce the circuit area lower the sensitivity of VCO performance to surroundings. It should be possible to incorporate a metal plate on top of the oscillator as part of packaging to shield the VCO from the surrounding with tolerable impact to the oscillator performance.","PeriodicalId":166842,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 20th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2021 IEEE 20th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SiRF51851.2021.9383397","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A measurement setup including a metal plate probe mounted on a micrometer-controlled positioner is used to quantify the effects of surrounding to voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) characteristics. Including a metal ring shield around the inductor of LC-VCO and placing components underneath the inductor to reduce the circuit area lower the sensitivity of VCO performance to surroundings. It should be possible to incorporate a metal plate on top of the oscillator as part of packaging to shield the VCO from the surrounding with tolerable impact to the oscillator performance.