• 센서학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.121-126
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• 2019

The voltage-controlled oscillator is one of the fundamental building blocks that determine the signal quality and power consumption in RF transceivers for wireless sensor networks. Ring oscillators are attractive owing to their small form factor and multi-phase capability despite the relatively poor phase noise performance in comparison with LC oscillators. The phase noise of a ring oscillator can be improved by using a coupled structure that works at a lower frequency. This paper introduces a 2.4 GHz low-noise ring oscillator that consists of two 3-stage coupled ring oscillators. Each sub-oscillator operates at 800 MHz, and the multi-phase signals are combined to generate a 2.4 GHz quadrature output. The voltage-controlled ring oscillator designed in a 65-nm standard CMOS technology has a tuning range of 800 MHz and exhibits the phase noise of -104 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset. The power consumption is 13.3 mW from a 1.2 V supply voltage.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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• pp.1312-1315
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• 2002

This research describes the design of a fully integrated fractional-N frequency synthesizer intended for the local oscillator in IMT-2000 system using 0.18-$\mu\textrm{m}$ CMOS technology and 1.8-V single power supply. The designed fractional-N synthesizer contains following components. Modified charge pump uses active cascode transistors to achieve the high output impedance. A multi-modulus prescaler has modified ECL-like D flip-flop with additional diode-connected transistors for short transient time and high frequency operation. And phase-frequency detector, integrated passive loop filter, LC-tuned VCO having a tuning range from 1.584 to 2.4 ㎓ at 1.8-V power supply, and higher-order sigma-delta modulator are contained. Finally, designed frequency synthesizer provides 5 ㎒ channel spacing with -122.6 dBc/Hz at 1 ㎒ in the WCDMA band and total output power is 28 mW.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2006년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.499-500
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• 2006

This paper presents a fast switching CMOS frequency synthesizer with a new coarse tuning method for PHS applications. To achieve the fast lock-time and the low phase noise performance, an efficient bandwidth control scheme is proposed. Charge pump up/down current mismatches are compensated with the current mismatch compensation block. Also, the proposed coarse tuning method selects the optimal tuning capacitances of the LC-VCO to optimize the phase noise and the lock-time. The measured lock-time is about $20{\mu}s$. This chip is fabricated with $0.25{\mu}m$ CMOS technology, and the die area is $0.7mm{\times}2.1mm$. The power consumption is 54mW at 2.7V supply voltage.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.122-128
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• 2023

This paper proposes two kinds of single-balanced direct conversion quadrature receivers using selfoscillating LMVs in which the voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) itself operates as a mixer while generating an oscillation. The two LMVs are complementary coupled and series coupled to generate the quadrature oscillating signals, respectively. Using a 65 nm CMOS technology, the proposed quadrature receivers are designed and simulated. Oscillating at around 2.4 GHz frequency, the complementary coupled quadrature receiver achieves the phase noise of -28 dBc/Hz at 1KHz offset and -109 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset frequency. The other series coupled receiver achieves the phase noise of -31 dBc/Hz at 1KHz offset and -109 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset frequency. The simulated voltage conversion gain of the two single-balanced receivers is 37 dB and 45 dB, respectively. The double-sideband noise figure of the two receivers is 5.3 dB at 1 MHz offset. The quadrature receivers consume about 440 μW dc power from a 1.0-V supply.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.443-451
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 Band-III 지상파 디지털 멀티미디어 방송 수신용 저전력 CMOS RF 튜너 칩에 대해 기술한다. 제안된 RF 튜너 칩은 저전력의 소형 휴대단말기 개발에 적합한 Low-IF 수신 구조로 설계되었으며, 174~240 MHz의 RF 방송 신호를 수신하여 1.536 MHz 대역폭의 2.048 MHz IF 신호를 출력한다. RF 튜너 칩은 저잡음 증폭기, 이미지 신호 제거 믹스, 채널 필터, LC-VCO, PLL과 Band-gap 기준 전압 생성기 등의 모든 수신부 기능 블록들을 포함하고 있으며, 0.18 um RF CMOS 기술을 이용하여 단일 칩으로 제작되었다. 또한 전력 소모를 줄이기 위한 4단계 이득 가변이 가능한 저잡음 증폭기를 제안하였으며, Schmoock's 선형화 기법과 Current bleeding 회로 등을 이용하여 수신 성능을 개선하였다. 제작된 RF 튜너 칩의 이득 제어 범위는 -25~+88 dB, 잡음 특성(NF)은 Band-III 전체 대역에서 약 4.02~5.13 dB, 선형 특성(IIP3)은 약 +2.3 dBm 그리고 이미지 신호 제거비는 최대 63.4 dB로 측정되었다. 총 전력 소모는 1.8 V 단일 전원에서 약 54 mW로 우수하며, 칩 면적은 약 $3.0{\times}2.5mm^2$이다.