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A 67 GHz dual injection quadrature VCO with-182.9 dBc/Hz FOM in 90-nm CMOS
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A 67 GHz dual injection quadrature VCO with-182.9 dBc/Hz FOM in 90-nm CMOS

Cuei-Ling Hsieh, Hong-Shen Chen, Hou-Ru Pan and Jenny Yi-Chun Liu
2017 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2017 - Proceedings, Vol.2017-January, pp.101-104
12/2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ASSCC.2017.8240226

Abstract

CMOS millimeter-wave phase noise QVCO Vband Electrical and Electronic Engineering Instrumentation
An ultra low phase noise millimeter-wave (mm-wave) quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator (QVCO) is proposed. By introducing an additional coupling path and using uneven sized cross-coupled oscillators with a fully symmetrical layout, the phase noise and the amplitude/phase mismatches are minimized. Implemented in 90-nm CMOS process, the 67-GHz compact QVCO achieves 0.46 degree and 0.47 dB phase and amplitude mismatches, respectively, and a phase noise of-105.8 dBc/Hz at 1-MHz offset, resulting in a figure-of-merit of-183 dBc/Hz.

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