A 40 GHz VCO with 9 to 15% tuning range in 0.13 /spl mu/m SOI CMOS
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Fong, N.; Plouchart, J.-O.; Zamdmer, N.; Duixian Liu; Wagner, L.; Garry, P.; Tarr, G.
- Source
- 2002 Symposium on VLSI Circuits. Digest of Technical Papers (Cat. No.02CH37302) VLSI circuits VLSI Circuits Digest of Technical Papers, 2002. Symposium on. :186-189 2002
- Subject
- Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Computing and Processing
Signal Processing and Analysis
Voltage-controlled oscillators
CMOS technology
Varactors
Frequency
Tuning
Parasitic capacitance
MOS devices
Virtual colonoscopy
Phase noise
Power generation
- Language
A 40 GHz fully-monolithic complementary VCO fabricated in IBM 0.13 /spl mu/m partially-depleted SOI CMOS technology is reported. The VCO operates at 1.5 V supply and draws 11.25 mW of power. The measured phase noise at 40 GHz is -109 dBc/Hz at 4 MHz offset from the carrier. At 1.5 V and 2 V V/sub DD/, the tuning range is 9% and 15% respectively, and the output power is -8 dBm and -5 dBm respectively. The VCO occupies a chip area of only 100 /spl mu/m by 100 /spl mu/m.