• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.4 no.2 s.7
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• pp.73-79
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• 2005

Various CMOS quadrature-voltage-controlled oscillators(QVCOS) are designed and fabricated for the comparison of the phase noise characteristic. The first one is that the QVCO is composed of two Colpitts oscillators cross-coupled with PMOS coupling transistors. The second and third ones are the conventional LC VCO and the balanced Colpitts VCO followed by the frequency-divide-by-two, respectively. The simulation result demonstrate that Colpitts schemes show better phase noise performance by 6 dB than that of a conventional stheme in which LC VCO is followed by the frequency-divide-by-two.

• 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.