Title
A transformer-based filtering technique to lower LC-oscillator phase noise.
Abstract
Phase noise of oscillators can be improved through noise filtering. This paper presents a transformer-based harmonic filtering technique to improve the phase noise performance of the fully differential CMOS LC oscillators. The primary and secondary of the transformer are placed at the sources of NMOS and PMOS differential pairs, respectively. Due to the extra degree of freedom introduced by the transformer, the filter can resonate at two different frequencies, which are designed to be the second and fourth harmonics. The analysis of the filtering method is presented and principles of operation are discussed in details. The performance is compared with other filtering techniques, and the simulation results show improved FoM compared to published literature. © 2012 IEEE.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ISCAS.2012.6271501
ISCAS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
inductors,noise,resonant frequency
Conference
null
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
null
null
978-1-4673-0218-0
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.38
9
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qing Jin110.71
Kuiyuan Yang214820.89
Chunyuan Zhou3121.61
Dongxu Yang4243.22
Lei Zhang54816.33
Yan Wang618362.13
Zhiping Yu718527.33
Weidong Geng810.38