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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2007.18.2.213

A Design on High Frequency CMOS VCO for UWB Applications  

Park, Bong-Hyuk (Wireless Home Network Research Team, Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute)
Lee, Seung-Sik (Wireless Home Network Research Team, Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute)
Choi, Sang-Sung (Wireless Home Network Research Team, Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute)
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Abstract
In this paper, we propose the design and fabrication on high frequency CMOS VCO for DS-UWB(Direct-Sequence Ultra-WideBand) applications using 0.18 ${\mu}m$ process. The complementary cross-coupled LC oscillator architecture which is composed of PMOS, NMOS symmetrically, is designed for improving the phase noise characteristic. The resistor is used instead of current source that reduce the 1/f noise of current source. The high-speed buffer is needed for measuring the output characteristic of VCO using spectrum analyzer, therefore the high-speed inverter buffer is designed with VCO. A fabricated core VCO size is $340{\mu}m{\times}535{\mu}m$. The VCO is tunable between 7.09 and 7.52 GHz and has a phase noise lower than -107 dBc/Hz at 1-MHz offset over entire tuning range. The measured harmonic suppression is 32 dB. The VCO core circuit draws 2.0 mA from a 1.8 V supply.
Keywords
UWB; VCO; CMOS; PLL;
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