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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES
Volume 57, Issue 4, Pages 767-774Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2009.2015112
Keywords
Adaptive body biasing; low power; low voltage; process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) variation; switched tuning; voltage boosting; voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO)
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- Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF)
- Korea Government (MEST) [R01-2005-029-04005-0]
- Samsung Electro-Mechanics Company Ltd.
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2008-0057353] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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This paper presents design techniques for a low-voltage voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) with a wide tuning range and low sensitivity to process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) variations. For wide tuning range, a switched tuning scheme is employed coupled with voltage-boosting techniques in a manner that improves the quality factor and tuning range of a switched capacitor array. To minimize the design overhead required for a robust VCO, an adaptive body-biasing technique is proposed, which relaxes the startup constraint and increases the VCO's immunity to PVT variations. The proposed VCO is implemented in 0.18-mu m CMOS technology and operates at 2.4 GHz. It achieves phase noise of -117 dBc/Hz at 1-MHz offset and a tuning range 20% while consuming 365 mu W of power. The figure-of-merit with the tuning range is -197 dBc/Hz, which is the lowest among recent state-of-the-art low-voltage VCOs.
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