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Design of CMOS LC VCO with Linearized Gain for 5.8GHz/5.2GHz/2.4GHz WLAN Applications  

Ahn Tae-Won (Dept. of Electronics, Dongyang Technical College)
Moon Yong (School fo Electronics Engineering, Soongsil University)
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Abstract
CMOS LC VCO for tri-bind wireless LAN applications was designed in 1.8V 0.18$\mu$m CMOS process. PMOS transistors were chosen for VCO core to reduce flicker noise. The possible operation was verified for 5.8GHz band (5.725$\~$5.825GHz), 5.2GHz band (5.150$\~$5.325GHz), and 2.4GHz band (2.412$\~$2.484GHz) using the switchable L-C resonators. To linearize its frequency-voltage gain (Kvco), optimized multiple MOS varactor biasing technique was used for capacitance linearization and PLL stability improvement. VCO core consumed 2mA current and $570{\mu}m{\times}600{\mu}m$ die area. The phase noise was lower than -110dBc/Hz at 1MHz offset for tri-band frequencies.
Keywords
CMOS; VCP; WLAN; multiband; MOS varactor;
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