Class-C harmonic CMOS VCOs, with a general result on phase noise

A Mazzanti, P Andreani - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A harmonic oscillator topology displaying an improved phase noise performance is
introduced in this paper. Exploiting the advantages yielded by operating the core transistors …

CMOS active inductors and transformers

F Yuan - Principle, implementation, and applications, 2008 - Springer
CMOS spiral inductors have found a broad range of applications in highspeed analog signal
processing and data communications. These applications include bandwidth enhancement …

A Fractional-N Sub-Sampling PLL using a Pipelined Phase-Interpolator With an FoM of -250 dB

AT Narayanan, M Katsuragi, K Kimura… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A fractional-N sub-sampling PLL architecture based on pipelined phase-interpolator and
Digital-to-Time-Converter (DTC) is presented in this paper. The combination of pipelined …

Phase Noise in LC Oscillators: A Phasor-Based Analysis of a General Result and of Loaded

D Murphy, JJ Rael, AA Abidi - IEEE Transactions on Circuits …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent work by Bank, and Mazzanti and Andreani has offered a general result concerning
phase noise in nearly-sinusoidal inductance-capacitance (LC) oscillators; namely that the …

Analysis and design of transformer-based dual-band VCO for software-defined radios

S Rong, HC Luong - … Transactions on Circuits and Systems I …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents complete analysis of both one-port and two-port dual-band oscillators
using transformer-based fourth-order LC tanks, from which critical parameters including …

Switched-Biasing Techniques for CMOS Voltage-Controlled Oscillator

CW Kang, H Moon, JR Yang - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
A voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) is a key component to generate high-speed clock of
mixed-mode circuits and local oscillation signals of the frequency conversion in wired and …

A noise circulating oscillator

F Wang, H Wang - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a noise circulating crosscoupled voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO)
topology with a transformer-based tank. The introduced noise circulating active core greatly …

Design and Analysis of a 90 nm mm-Wave Oscillator Using Inductive-Division LC Tank

L Li, P Reynaert, MSJ Steyaert - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 60 GHz voltage-controlled oscillator with an inductive division LC tank has been designed
in 90 nm CMOS. The analysis of the oscillator shows that the presence of higher harmonics …

A Low-Power, Differential Relaxation Oscillator With the Self-Threshold-Tracking and Swing-Boosting Techniques in 0.18- m CMOS

SY Lu, YT Liao - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a fully integrated, 8.2-MHz relaxation oscillator with a self-threshold-
tracking loop and swing-boosting technique for improving its long-term frequency stability …

A 60-GHz CMOS VCO using capacitance-splitting and gate–drain impedance-balancing techniques

L Li, P Reynaert, MSJ Steyaert - IEEE transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The design and measurement of a 60-GHz 90-nm CMOS voltage-controlled oscillator is
presented. To reduce the power consumption and to improve the phase-noise performance …