应用于DRM/DAB接收机的压控振荡器设计

论文基于SMIC0.18umCOMS工艺,设计一种宽频低功耗低相位噪声的CMOS压控振荡器,电路采用差分LC振荡器,同时采用积累型MOS可变电容、缓冲电路及经改良的开关电容阵列,以降低功耗和相位噪声,由仿真结果可知,电路频率调谐范围为2.5G~3.1G,频偏为1MHz时相位噪声分布在-118dBc/Hz~-122dBc/Hz,工作电流小于10mA,满足设计要求,可应用于DRM/DAB接收机。     

2.5 GHz低相位噪声LC压控振荡器

在0.35 μm SiGe BiCMOS工艺条件下,设计了一个全集成的低相位噪声LC压控振荡器(VCO).该VCO采用尾电阻结构替代传统的尾电流源结构实现电流控制,以减小尾电流源产生的噪声.该VCO的调谐范围为480 MHz,可以覆盖2.32～2.8 GHz.当振荡频率为2.5 GHz时,100 kHz和1 MHz频偏处的相位噪声分别为-104.3 dBc/Hz和-124.3 dBc/Hz.振荡器工作电压为5 V,尾电流为5 mA.工作在2.5 GHz时,其100 kHz频偏处的性能系数为-178 dBc/Hz.     

CMOS工艺实现的高性能串联耦合正交振荡器

本文提出了一个高性能的正交振荡器。该振荡器采用具有顶层厚金属的SMIC CMOS 0.18um工艺实现。采用cascode串联耦合来产生正交信号。对NMOS差分对管引入源级退化电容来抑制其1/f噪声转化为振荡器的近端相位噪声。并最终采用专用的低噪声,高电源抑制能力的LDO来供电。正交振荡器测试显示4.78GHz信号输出时1MHz频偏处相位噪声－123.3dBc/Hz.频率范围为4.09GHz到4.87GHz,17.5%的调谐范围。调谐增益在44.5MHz/V至66.7MHz/V之间。核心芯片面积不包含pad和ESD保护电路的为0.41mm2。     

使用新注入锁定技术的低相位噪声正交振荡器

提出了一种利用新注入锁定技术的低相位噪声正交振荡器,激励信号直接注入子谐波振荡器的共源连接点.原理上,正交振荡器的相位噪声性能会比子谐波振荡器的相位噪声性能好.该正交振荡器已经采用0.25μmCMOS工艺实现,测试结果表明该正交振荡器的振荡频率约为1.13GHz,在偏离振荡频率1MHz处的相位噪声约为-130dBc/Hz.该振荡器采用2.5V电源电压,消耗的电流约为8.0mA.     

使用新注入锁定技术的低相位噪声正交振荡器

提出了一种利用新注入锁定技术的低相位噪声正交振荡器,激励信号直接注入子谐波振荡器的共源连接点.原理上,正交振荡器的相位噪声性能会比子谐波振荡器的相位噪声性能好.该正交振荡器已经采用0.25μmCMOS工艺实现,测试结果表明该正交振荡器的振荡频率约为1.13GHz,在偏离振荡频率1MHz处的相位噪声约为-130dBc/Hz.该振荡器采用2.5V电源电压,消耗的电流约为8.0mA.     

卫星电视天线射频电路中LC压控振荡器设计

设计了一款应用于卫星电视天线电路中低功耗、低相噪的宽带单片集成压控振荡器。该振荡器利用PMOS尾电流源和MIM电容阵列结构。在保证调谐范围的前提下,有效地降低了相位噪声。使得该压控振荡器实现了3.384～4.022 GHz频段的覆盖,在中心频率为3.7 GHz时,100 Hz和1 MHz频偏处的相位噪声分别为-90.4 dBc/Hz和-119.1 dBc/Hz,工作电压下为1.8 V,功耗仅为2.5 mW。     

射频卫星电视天线电路中LC压控振荡器设计

本文设计了一款应用于卫星电视天线电路中低功耗、低相噪的宽带单片集成压控振荡器。该振荡器利用PMOS尾电流源和MIM电容阵列结构。在保证调谐范围的前提下,有效的降低了相位噪声。使得该压控振荡器实现了3.384GHz~4.022GHz频段的覆盖,在中心频率为3.7GHz时,100Hz和1MHz频偏处的相位噪声分别为-90.4dBc/Hz和-119.1dBc/Hz,工作电压下为1.8V,功耗仅为2.5mW。     

低相位噪声CMOS环形压控振荡器的研究与设计

针对个人电脑和通讯系统对频率合成器中振荡器的低相位噪声的要求,对基本的环形振荡器结构进行改进,设计了两种宽带低相位噪声CMOS环形压控振荡器(VCO),在800 MHz振荡频率、1 MHz频偏下,测试的相位噪声分别为-123 dBc/Hz和-110 dBc/Hz.两个VCO的调谐范围分别为450～1 017 MHz和559～935 MHz.     

一种低噪声C类LC压控振荡器的设计

为了改善压控振荡器相位噪声,基于40 nm CMOS工艺,设计一种低噪声C类LC压控振荡器。交叉耦合NMOS对管通过电流镜偏置作为电路的电流源,并采用共模反馈偏置电路使交叉耦合PMOS对管工作在饱和区,保证LC压控振荡器实现C类振荡。通过差分可变电容的设计,压控振荡器的增益减小,压控振荡器的相位噪声得到改善。设计了4组开关电容进行调节,增大压控振荡器的调谐范围。仿真结果表明,处于1.2 V的电压下,压控振荡器振荡频率范围在4.14～5.7 GHz,频率调谐范围变化率达到31.2%,相位噪声为-112.8 dBc/Hz。     

超低电压正交压控振荡器设计

提出一种新的低压正交压控振荡器(QVCO)结构,该结构由两个完全相同的低压压控振荡器经过背栅耦合方式实现.背栅耦合方式使压控振荡器实现正交的输出时钟并且降低了功耗和输出相位噪声.该设计中的QVCO电路采用中芯国际0.13μm 1P8M标准CMOS工艺,可以工作在0.35V的电源电压下,总的功耗为1.75mW,输出时钟频率为5.34GHz,偏离主频1MHz处的相位噪声为-110.5dBc/Hz,对应该相位噪声的FOM(FigureOf-Merit)为-182.62dBc/Hz,频率调谐范围为4.92~5.34GHz.该QVCO可以在更低的电源电压下实现低的相位噪声,且拥有较高的FOM值.     

Low power fast settling multi-standard current reusing CMOS fractional-N frequency synthesizer

正A low power fast settling multi-standard CMOS fractional-N frequency synthesizer is proposed.The current reusing and frequency presetting techniques are adopted to realize the low power fast settling multi-standard fractional-N frequency synthesizer.An auxiliary non-volatile memory(NVM) is embedded to avoid the repetitive calibration process and to save power in practical application.This PLL is implemented in a 0.18μm technology. The frequency range is 0.3 to 2.54 GHz and the settling time is less than 5μs over the entire frequency range.The LC-VCO with the stacked divide-by-2 has a good figure of merit of-193.5 dBc/Hz.The measured phase noise of frequency synthesizer is about-115 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset when the carrier frequency is 2.4 GHz and the reference spurs are less than -52 dBc.The whole frequency synthesizer consumes only 4.35 mA @ 1.8 V.     

A Low-Voltage Quadrature CMOS VCO Based on Voltage-Voltage Feedback Topology

A novel low-voltage quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator (QVCO) with voltage feedback to the input gate of a switching amplifier is proposed and implemented using the standard TSMC 0.18-mum CMOS 1P6M process. The proposed circuit topology is made up of two low-voltage LC-tank VCOs, where the coupled QVCO is obtained using the transformer coupling technique. At the 0.7-V supply voltage, the output phase noise of the VCO is -124.9 dBc/Hz at 1-MHz offset frequency from the carrier frequency of 2.4GHz, and the figure of merit is -185.35dBc/Hz. Total power consumption is 5.18 mW. Tuning range is about 135 MHz while the control voltage was tuned from 0 to 0.7V     

A 4.6 GHz cascade switched biasing LC–QVCO using source-body resistor

This paper presents a 4.6 GHz LC quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator (QVCO) in which the phase noise performance is improved by two methods: cascade switched biasing (CSB) technique and source-body resistor. The CSB topology can reduce the resonator loss caused by MOSFET resistance. Meanwhile, it can maintain the benefits of conventional switched biasing technique. The source-body resistors are utilized to reduce the noise contribution of the substrate related to the cross coupled MOSFETs. The proposed QVCO has been implemented in standard 0.18 μm CMOS technology. With the two methods mentioned above, it consumes 4.9 mW under 1 V voltage supply and achieves a phase noise of ?120.3 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz frequency offset from the carrier of 4.56 GHz. The figure of merit is 186.5 dBc/Hz and the tuning range is from 4.2 G to 5 GHz (17.3 %). When the QVCO operates at 0.8 V voltage supply, the power consumption is 2.88 mW and the phase noise is ?115.7 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz frequency offset from the carrier of 4.58 GHz.     

High performance QVCO design with series coupling in CMOS technology

A high performance quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator（QVCO） is presented.It has been fabricated in SMIC 0.18μm CMOS technology with top thick metal.The proposed QVCO employed cascade serial coupling for in phase and quadrature phase signal generation.Source degeneration capacitance is added to the NMOS differential pair to suppress their flicker noise from up-conversion to close in phase noise.A dedicated low noise and high power supply rejection low drop out regulator is used to supply this QVCO.The measured phase noise of the proposed QVCO achieves phase noise of-123.3 dBc/Hz at an offset frequency of 1 MHz from the carrier of 4.78 GHz,while the QVCO core circuit and LDO draw 6 mA from a 1.8 V supply.The QVCO can operate from 4.09 to 4.87 GHz（17.5%）.Measured tuning gain of the QVCO(K_vco) spans from 44.5 to 66.7 MHz/V.The chip area excluding the pads and ESD protection circuit is 0.41 mm².     

K- and Q-bands CMOS frequency sources with X-band quadrature VCO

Fully integrated 10-, 20-, and 40-GHz frequency sources are presented, which are implemented with a 0.18-/spl mu/m CMOS process. A 10-GHz quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator (QVCO) is designed to have output with a low dc level, which can be effectively followed by a frequency multiplier. The proposed multipliers generate signals of 20 and 40 GHz using the harmonics of the QVCO. To have more harmonic power, a frequency doubler with pinchoff clipping is used without any buffers or dc-level shifters. The QVCO has a low phase noise of -118.67 dBc/Hz at a 1-MHz offset frequency with a 1.8-V power supply. The transistor size effect on phase noise is investigated. The frequency doubler has a low phase noise of -111.67 dBc/Hz at a 1-MHz offset frequency is measured, which is 7 dB higher than a phase noise of the QVCO. The doubler can be tuned between 19.8-22 GHz and the output is -6.83 dBm. A fourth-order frequency multiplier, which is used to obtain 40-GHz outputs, shows a phase noise of -102.0 dBc/Hz at 1-MHz offset frequency with the output power of -18.0 dBm. A large tuning range of 39.3-43.67 GHz (10%) is observed.     

一种4.224GHz正交压控振荡器的设计

设计了一种应用于MB-OFDM UWB射频频率综合器的工作于4.224GHz的正交压控振荡器(QVCO),并采用0.18μm RF-CMOS工艺进行了设计实现.该Qvco通过改进结构能够得到更好的相位噪声.通过改变MOS变容管的接入方法实现了更好的压控增益线性度,并采用了新的低寄生电容、低导通电阻的数控电容阵列结构来补偿工艺变化带来的频率变化.测试结果表明,该QV-CO在4.224GHz附近的100kHz频偏处的相位噪声为-90.4dBc/Hz,1MHz频偏处的相位噪声为-116.7dBc/Hz,整个QVCO电路功耗为10.55mW,电源电压为1.8V.     

CMOS Colpitts Quadrature VCO Using the Body Injection-Locked Coupling Technique

This paper presents a new low phase noise quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator (QVCO), which consists of two differential complementary Colpitts voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs) with a tail inductor. The output of the tail inductor in one differential VCO is injected to the bodies of the nMOSFETs in the other differential VCO and vice versa. The proposed CMOS QVCO has been implemented with the TSMC 0.18 mum CMOS technology and the die area is 0.725 times 0.839 mm². At the supply voltage of 1.1 V, the total power consumption is 9.9 mW. The free-running frequency of the QVCO is tunable from 5.26 GHz to 5.477 GHz as the tuning voltage is varied from 0.0 V to 1.1 V. The measured phase noise at 1 MHz frequency offset is -124.36 dBc/Hz at the oscillation frequency of 5.44 GHz and the figure of merit (FOM) of the proposed QVCO is -189.1 dBc/Hz.     

A 1.5 V 7.656 GHz PLL with I/Q outputs for a UWB synthesizer

A fully integrated CMOS phase-locked loop (PLL) which can synthesize a quadrature output frequency of 7.656 GHz is presented.The proposed PLL can be employed as a building block for an MB-OFDM UWB frequency synthesizer.To achieve fast loop settling,integer-N architecture operating with 66 MHz reference frequency and wideband QVCO are implemented.I/Q carriers are generated by two bottom-series cross-coupled LC VCOs.Realized in 0.18μm CMOS technology,this PLL consumes 16 mA current (including buffers) from a 1.5 V supply and the phase noise is-109.6 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset.The measured oscillation frequency shows that the QVCO has a range of 6.95 to 8.73 GHz.The core circuit occupies an area of 1×0.5 mm2.     

A symmetrical 6-GHz fully integrated cascode coupling CMOS LC quadrature VCO

A fully symmetrical integrated quadrature LC oscillator with a wide tuning range of 1.2GHz is presented. The quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator (QVCO) is implemented using a symmetrical coupling method which has been used to produce the large tuning range with a low control voltage and to achieve good phase noise performance in 0.18/spl mu/m complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology. The measured phase noise at 1MHz offset from the center frequency (5.5GHz) is -115 dBc/Hz. The QVCO draws 3.2mA from a 1.8V supply. The equivalent phase error between I and Q signal was at most 0.5/spl deg/.     

Comparison between RTW VCO and LC QVCO 12?GHz PLLs

This paper reports comparisons between RTW VCO and LC QVCO 12?GHz PLLs, designed in a 130?nm CMOS technology for satellite communication applications. The phase noise at 1?MHz offset from the carrier is ?102?dBc/Hz for the RTW VCO PLL and ?98?dBc/Hz for the LC QVCO PLL, and the power consumption is 39 and 17?mW, respectively.