• Journal of Industrial Technology
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• v.29 no.B
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• pp.101-105
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• 2009

A 1.571GHz LC VCO with optimized spiral inductor for GPS receiver is designed in 130nm CMOS process. The phase noise of the VCO has been reduced the use of high Q inductor and on chip filter. It has phase noise of -91dBc/Hz, -111dBc/Hz, and -131dBc/Hz at 10kHz, 100kHz, and 1MHz offset frequencies from the carrier, respectively. This VCO consumes 2mA from a 0.6V supply.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.283-286
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• 1999

A 2㎓, low noise, low power CMOS voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) with an integrated LC resonator is presented. The design of VCO relies heavily on the on-chip spiral inductor. An optimized spiral inductor with Q-factor of nearly 8 is achieved and used for the VCO. The simulated result of phase noise is as low as -l14 ㏈c/Hz at an offset frequency of a 600KHz from a 2㎓ carrier frequency. The VCO is tuned with standard available junction capacitors, resulting in an about 400MHz tuning range (20%). Implemented in a five-metal 0.25${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ standard CMOS process, the VCO consumes only 2㎽ from a single 2.5V supply. It occupies an active area of 620${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$$\times$720${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.64-68
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• 2007

An InGaP/GaAs HBT based differential Colpitts voltage control oscillator(VCO) is presented in this paper. In the VCO core, two switching transistors are introduced to steer the core bias current to save power. An LC tank with an inductor quality factor(Q) of 11.4 is used to generate oscillation frequency. It has a superior phase noise characteristics of -130.12 dBc/Hz and -105.3 at 1 MHz and 100 kHz frequency offsets respectively from the carrier frequency(1.566 GHz) when supplied with a control voltage of 0 volt. It dissipates output power of -5.3 dBm. Two pairs of on-chip base collector (BC) diodes are used in the tank circuit to increase the VCO tuning range(168 MHz). This VCO occupies the area of $1.070{\times}0.90mm^2$ including buffer and pads.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.59-64
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• 2009

In this paper, we represent characteristics and equivalent circuit of donut type resonator of defected ground structure (DGS), and can control resonant frequency with chip capacitor. In General, DGS operates like with parallel LC resonator. We found out variation of resonance frequency when capacitor is placed on slot of DGS. If the chip capacitor replace with varactor diode, the resonance frequencies can be controlled by voltage. This tualable resonator can apply to voltage controlled oscillator and tunable bandpass filter.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.46 no.9
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• pp.74-80
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• 2009

This paper describes a $2{\sim}6GHz$ CMOS frequency synthesizer that employs only one LC-tank voltage controlled oscillator (VCO). For wide-band operation, optimized LO signal generator is used. The LC-tank VCO oscillating in $6{\sim}8GHz$ provides the required LO frequency by dividing and mixing the VCO output clocks appropriately. The frequency synthesizer is based on a fractional-N phase locked loop (PLL) employing third-order 1-1-1 MASH type sigma-delta modulator. Implemented in a $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS technology, the frequency synthesizer occupies the area of $0.92mm^2$ with of-chip loop filter and consumes 36mW from a 1.8V supply. The PLL is completed in less than $8{\mu}s$. The phase noise is -110dBC/Hz at 1MHz offset from the carrier.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.413-414
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• 2008

A 2.4 GHz low phase noise fully integrated LC voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) in $0.18\;{\mu}m$ CMOS technology is presented in this paper. The VCO is optimized based on phase noise reduction. The design of the VCO uses differential varactors which are adopted for symmetry of the circuit, and consider AM-PM conversion due to a cross-coupled pair. The VCO is designed to draw 3 mA from 1.8 V supply voltage. Simulated phase noise is -137.3 dBc/Hz at 3 MHz offset. The tuning range is found to be 300 MHz range from 2.3 GHz to 2.6 GHz.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.417-418
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• 2008

A quadrature voltage controlled oscillator(QVCO) with MOS-varactors has been fabricated for X-band applications. The QVCO consists of two cross -coupled differential cores and buffer amplifiers, which has fabricated in TSMC $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process. The QVCO exhibits a frequency tuning range from 8.38 GHz to 10.62 GHz. The phase noise is -88 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz-offset frequency. The total bias current is 25 mA including four buffer amplifiers.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06b
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• pp.145-148
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• 2002

In this paper, a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) with automatic amplitude control is designed using a 0.35${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ CMOS process. A cross-coupled PMOS pair is used for a negative resistance to compensate for the losses in the LC resonator, and an automatic\ulcorner amplitude control function is adapted to provide constant output power independent of the Q-factor of the LC resonator. The designed VCO operates in the 200MHz to 550MHz frequency range using different external resonators. The simulated phase noise is -128 dBc/Hz at 100KHz offset from the carrier frequency of 260MHz. It dissipates 0.㎽ from a 3V power supply. The area is 300${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ x1201${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.122-128
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• 2007

Sinusoidal voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs) based on Colpitts and Hartley oscillators are presented. They consist of a LC parallel-tuned circuit connected in a negative-feedback loop with an OTA-R amplifier and two diode limiters, where the inductor is simulated one realized with temperature-stable linear operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) and a grounded capacitor. Prototype VCOs are built with discrete components. The Colpitts VCO exhibits less than 1% nonlinearity in its current-to-frequency transfer characteristic from 4.2 to 21.7 MHz and ${\pm}$95 ppm/$^{\circ}C$ temperature drift of frequency over 0 to $70^{\circ}C$. The total harmonic distortion (THD) is as low as 2.92% with a peak-to-peak amplitude of 0.7 V for a frequency-tuning range of 10.8-32 MHz. The Hartley VCO has the temperature drift and THD of two times higher than those of the Colpitts VCO.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07c
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• pp.2333-2335
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• 2005

Various CMOS quadrature-voltage-controlled oscillators(QVCOs) are designed and fabricated for the comparison of the phase noise. The core VCO is composed of two Colpitts oscillators which are cross-coupled with PMOS pair. For the comparison of phase noise with the proposed scheme, the conventional LC VCO followed by the frequency-divide-by-two is designed. The simulation result demonstrate that the proposed scheme shows better phase noise performance by 6dB than that of a conventional scheme in which LC VCO is followed by the frequency-divide-by-two.