Dual-Band VCO Using High Quality Factor Two Orthogonally Located Inductors in 0.18-μm CMOS Technology

IF 2.9 2区 工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.1109/LMWC.2022.3179002
I. Mansour, Marwa Mansour, M. Aboualalaa, A. Allam, A. Abdel-Rahman, R. Pokharel, M. Abo-Zahhad
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This work introduces a new topology for designing low-phase noise (PN) dual-band voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) by proposing orthogonally located inductors in 0.18- $\mu \text{m}$ CMOS. The inductors are implemented using five metal layers keeping the lowest layer empty to maximize the quality ( $Q$ ) factor. The first inductor is two halves shunted octagonal loops using the top layer (M6) and utilized in cross-coupled VCO, while the second inductor is formed by four C-shaped shunted inductors using the lower four layers $\text{M}_{\mathrm {5-2}}$ and used in current-reuse (CR) VCO. The M6 inductor improves the $Q$ -factor by more than 25%over one loop inductor in the frequency band of interest, while the $\text{M}_{\mathrm {5-2}}$ inductor uses four shunt layers to boost the $Q$ -factor by 28% in $K$ -band compared to the single-layer inductor. The VCO oscillates from 22.36 to 23.4 GHz with PN of −112.4 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz and figure of merit (FoM) of −188.8 dBc/Hz, while the CR VCO has tuning range from 23.8 to 25.7 GHz with a PN of −107 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz and FoM −185.8 dBc/Hz.
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采用0.18 μm CMOS技术的高品质因数正交电感双带压控振荡器
本文介绍了一种用于设计低相位噪声(PN)双频压控振荡器(VCO)的新拓扑结构,提出了0.18-$\mu\text{m}$CMOS中正交定位的电感器。电感器使用五个金属层来实现,保持最低层为空以最大化质量($Q$)因子。第一个电感器是使用顶层(M6)的两个半分流八边形环,并用于交叉耦合的VCO,而第二电感器由使用下面四层的四个C形分流电感器形成$\text{M}_{\mathrm{5-2}}$并在当前重用(CR)VCO中使用。M6电感器比感兴趣频带中的一个环路电感器将$Q$-因子提高了25%以上,而$\text{M}_{\mathrm{5-2}}$电感器使用四个分流层,与单层电感器相比,在$K$频带中将$Q$因子提高28%。VCO在22.36至23.4 GHz之间振荡,1 MHz时PN为−112.4 dBc/Hz,品质因数(FoM)为−188.8 dBc/Hz;而CR VCO的调谐范围为23.8至25.7 GHz,1 MHz下PN为−107 dBc/Hz。
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IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters 工程技术-工程:电子与电气
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