A 1.3 GHz low-phase noise fully tunable CMOS LC VCO

1 March 2000

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Vol. 35 (3) , 356-361
https://doi.org/10.1109/4.826817

Abstract

This paper presents a low-phase noise CMOS LC-VCO, in which a complete compensation of the component spread, due to process variations, can be done. The LC tank is made of a metal-oxide-silicon varactor and a bondwire and a spiral inductor in series. The trade-off between VCO gain variations and phase noise is introduced. The measurements performed on a prototype, powered by a 2-V supply, realized in a digital CMOS process, are presented. The oscillation frequency can be varied in the range 1.1-1.45 G-Hz. The measured phase noise at an offset of 600 kHz from a 1.3-GHz carrier is -119 dBc/Hz, with 6-mA current consumption.

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