Investigation and optimization of low-power techniques in X-band CMOS LC-VCO design

Autor: Szu-Ling Liu, Kuan-Han Chen, Yue Hao, Xin-Cheng Tian
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: 2011 IEEE International Conference of Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits.
DOI: 10.1109/edssc.2011.6117742
Popis: This paper investigates the optimization method for two low-power circuit techniques in low-power LC-VCO designs: Transformer feedback and forward body-bias. In addition to theoretical analysis, a low-power, low-voltage X-band VCO using these two techniques has also been implemented in a standard 0.18µm CMOS technology. This VCO exhibits good FOM and of •191.4dBc/Hz while the core circuit draws a DC current of 2.73mA from 0.55V low supply voltage. The excellent performance can be compared with the best reported X-band CMOS VCOs.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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