A Dual-Conduction Class-C VCO for a Low Supply Voltage
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This paper proposes a dual-conduction class-C VCO for ultra-low supply voltages. Two cross-coupled NMOS pairs with different bias points are employed. These NMOS pairs realize an impulse-like current waveform to improve the phase noise in the low supply conditions. The proposed VCO was implemented in a standard 0.18 µm CMOS technology, which oscillates at a carrier frequency of 4.5 GHz with a 0.2-V supply voltage. The measured phase noise is -104 dBc/Hz@1 MHz-offset with a power consumption of 114 µW, and the FoM is -187 dBc/Hz.
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- IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E95-A No.2 pp.506-514
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- 2012/02/01
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- 1745-1337
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- 10.1587/transfun.E95.A.506
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Kenichi OKADA, You NOMIYAMA, Rui MURAKAMI, Akira MATSUZAWA, "A Dual-Conduction Class-C VCO for a Low Supply Voltage" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals,
vol. E95-A, no. 2, pp. 506-514, February 2012, doi: 10.1587/transfun.E95.A.506.
Abstract: This paper proposes a dual-conduction class-C VCO for ultra-low supply voltages. Two cross-coupled NMOS pairs with different bias points are employed. These NMOS pairs realize an impulse-like current waveform to improve the phase noise in the low supply conditions. The proposed VCO was implemented in a standard 0.18 µm CMOS technology, which oscillates at a carrier frequency of 4.5 GHz with a 0.2-V supply voltage. The measured phase noise is -104 dBc/Hz@1 MHz-offset with a power consumption of 114 µW, and the FoM is -187 dBc/Hz.
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AU - Kenichi OKADA
AU - You NOMIYAMA
AU - Rui MURAKAMI
AU - Akira MATSUZAWA
PY - 2012
DO - 10.1587/transfun.E95.A.506
JO - IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals
SN - 1745-1337
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