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A Study of Phase-Adjusting Architectures for Low-Phase-Noise Quadrature Voltage-Controlled Oscillators
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Quadrature voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs) with current-weight-average and voltage-weight-average phase-adjusting architectures are studied. The phase adjusting equalizes the oscillation frequency to the LC-resonant frequency. The merits of the equalization are explained by using Leeson's phase noise equation and the impulse sensitivity function (ISF). Quadrature VCOs with the phase-adjusting architectures are fabricated using 180-nm TSMC CMOS and show low-phase-noise performances compared to a conventional differential VCO. The ISF analysis and small-signal analysis also show that the drawbacks of the current-weight-average phase-adjusting and voltage-weight-average phase-adjusting architectures are current-source noise effect and large additional capacitance, respectively. A voltage-average-adjusting circuit with a source follower at its input alleviates the capacitance increase.
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- IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E106-C No.2 pp.59-66
- Publication Date
- 2023/02/01
- Publicized
- 2022/08/03
- Online ISSN
- 1745-1353
- DOI
- 10.1587/transele.2022ECP5009
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- PAPER
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- Electronic Circuits
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Mamoru UGAJIN
Nippon Institute of Technology
Yuya KAKEI
Saizeriya Co., Ltd.
Nobuyuki ITOH
Okayama Prefectural University
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Mamoru UGAJIN, Yuya KAKEI, Nobuyuki ITOH, "A Study of Phase-Adjusting Architectures for Low-Phase-Noise Quadrature Voltage-Controlled Oscillators" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics,
vol. E106-C, no. 2, pp. 59-66, February 2023, doi: 10.1587/transele.2022ECP5009.
Abstract: Quadrature voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs) with current-weight-average and voltage-weight-average phase-adjusting architectures are studied. The phase adjusting equalizes the oscillation frequency to the LC-resonant frequency. The merits of the equalization are explained by using Leeson's phase noise equation and the impulse sensitivity function (ISF). Quadrature VCOs with the phase-adjusting architectures are fabricated using 180-nm TSMC CMOS and show low-phase-noise performances compared to a conventional differential VCO. The ISF analysis and small-signal analysis also show that the drawbacks of the current-weight-average phase-adjusting and voltage-weight-average phase-adjusting architectures are current-source noise effect and large additional capacitance, respectively. A voltage-average-adjusting circuit with a source follower at its input alleviates the capacitance increase.
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