CMOS second-harmonic quadrature voltage controlled oscillator using substrate for coupling |
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Authors: | Mohammad Jafar Hemmati Sasan Naseh |
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Affiliation: | (1) The Electrical Engineering Group, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran |
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Abstract: | In this work, a new circuit configuration for second-harmonic quadrature voltage controlled oscillator (QVCO) with CMOS technology
is proposed. The proposed QVCO is made by coupling two identical cross-connected VCOs. The coupling elements (two resistors
and two capacitors) do not increase the power consumption of the core VCOs and do not disturb the resonant frequency of the
tank circuit in the core VCOs and also, according to the simulations the coupling elements do not adversely affect the phase
noise. The role of the substrate terminal of cross-connected MOSFETs of the core oscillators as common mode nodes is demonstrated.
Using this node for coupling makes it possible to eliminate the tail transistors in the core oscillators and therefore the
circuit can operate with supply voltages as low as 0.5 V. Using the same method to couple more than two core oscillators,
results in a multiphase VCO. |
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