Title
A low power low phase noise dual-band multiphase VCO
Abstract
This paper presents a low-power low-phase noise multiphase VCO that operates in 2.5GHz and 5.0GHz frequency bands. The dual-band multiphase VCO uses the frequency doubling method to generate the higher band signals from the lower band signals, and it shows excellent phase noise performance compared to other dual-band multiphase VCOs presented in literature. The VCO has been implemented in 0.18@mm CMOS technology, and its frequency is tunable from 2.23GHz to 2.68GHz and from 4.46GHz to 5.36GHz. The measured phase difference between the I/Q signals is 90.0^o/88.9^o for the two frequency bands respectively. The phase noise figure-of-merits (FOMs) for the two frequency bands are -189.4dB and -185.1dB.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.mejo.2012.07.019
Microelectronics Journal
Keywords
Field
DocType
higher band signal,frequency band,low power,frequency doubling method,low-power low-phase noise multiphase,excellent phase noise performance,q signal,measured phase difference,dual-band multiphase,low phase noise dual-band,lower band signal,phase noise figure-of-merits,multiphase vco,quadrature,vco
Phase noise,CMOS,Electronic engineering,Voltage-controlled oscillator,Quadrature (mathematics),Q code,Engineering,Radio spectrum,Multi-band device
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
43
12
0026-2692
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
6
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Juan Xie110.37
M. Krishna Vamshi210.37
Manh Anh Do317624.95
Chirn Chye Boon413626.81
Kiat Seng Yeo536563.72