A fully integrated 5.8 GHz U-NII band 0.18-μm CMOS VCO

Yuan Kai Chu; Huey Ru Chuang

doi:10.1109/LMWC.2003.814098

A fully integrated 5.8 GHz U-NII band 0.18-μm CMOS VCO

Yuan Kai Chu, Huey Ru Chuang

Institute of Computer and Communication Engineering

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Abstract

A fully integrated 5.8 GHz CMOS L-C tank voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) using 0.18-μm 1P6M standard CMOS process for 5 GHz U-NII band WLAN application is presented. The VCO core circuit uses only PMOS to pursue a better phase noise performance since it has less 1/f noise than NMOS. The measurement is performed by using a FR-4 PCB test fixture. The output frequency of the VCO is from 5860 to 6026 MHz with a 166 MHz tuning range and the phase noise is -96.9 dBc/Hz at 300 KHz (or -110 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz) with V _ctrl = 0 V. The power consumption of the VCO excluding buffer amplifiers is 8.1 mW at V_DD = 1.8 V and the output power is -4 dBm.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	287-289
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters
Volume	13
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWC.2003.814098
Publication status	Published - 2003 Jul

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