• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.246-254
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• 2024

In this paper, a Quadrature Voltage Controlled Oscillator of a wireless transceiver operating in the 5GHz UNII band of the wireless LAN 802.11a standard was proposed. In addition, a new structure of low-noise, low-power Quadrature Coupled VCO was proposed using the quadrature phase output as an input to the switching current source. If this structure is applied to other circuits such as a structure in which the current source is separated or a common use of a current source, a phase noise characteristic of 17 dB better than the existing VCO can be obtained. In particular, it is designed to operate with low power in a simple structure compared to the existing in-phase QVCO. The circuit was designed to operate with a supply voltage of 1.2V by the TSMC 0.13㎛ RF CMOS process. The measured VCO has a large tuning range of 20% operating at frequencies of 4.5 - 5.6 GHz, and phase noise of -117 dBc/Hz or less was obtained at the 1 MHz offset. The output phase error of the proposed QVCO was less than 0.5 degrees, and the total power consumption was able to obtain 5.3 mW at 1.2V.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제49권8호
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• pp.41-46
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 X-band 주파수 대역을 위한 직교 신호 발생 전압제어 발진기(Quadrature VCO)를 제안하였다. 제안된 직교신호 발생 전압제어 발진기는 $0.13{\mu}m$ CMOS 공정을 사용하였다. 본 논문에서 제안된 직교 신호 전압제어 발진기는 두 개의 cross-coupled된 차동의 전압제어 발진기와 두 개의 차동 완충기로 구성 되어있다. 이 직교 전압제어 발진기는 4 bit의 capacitor bank와 varactor의 제어 전압으로 주파수를 가변한다. Varactor의 Q-factor를 선형적으로 변화시키기 위해, varactor 에 각각의 다른 bias voltage를 인가하였다. 이 직교 전압제어 발진기는 6.591 GHz에서 8.012 GHz까지의 주파수 가변 범위를 가진다. 이 직교 전압제어 발생기는 7.150 GHz의 출력 주파수를 가질 때 1MHz offset에서 -101.04 dBc/Hz의 Phase noise를 가진다. 공급 전압은 1.5V를 사용 하였고 QVCO core에서 6.5~8.5 mA의 전류를 소모한다.

• 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.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.73-79
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 3가지 형태의 CMOS 직교 신호 발생 전압 제어 발진기를 설계 및 제작하여 위상 잡음 특성을 비교하였다. 첫 번째 구조는 PMOS를 이용하여 두개의 Colpitts 발진기를 구성한 후 이를 상호 결합시킨 구조이다. 두 번째와 세번째 구조는 각각 일반적인 LC VCO와 펼형 콜피츠 구조에 주파수 2분주기를 연결하여 직교신호를 얻는 구조이다. 모의실험 결과 콜피츠 구조를 사용한 구조가 LC 발진기를 사용하였을 때에 비해 위상 잡음 특성이 6 dB 이상 개선되었다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 제36회 하계학술대회 논문집 C
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• pp.2333-2335
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• 2005

Various CMOS quadrature-voltage-controlled oscillators(QVCOs) are designed and fabricated for the comparison of the phase noise. The core VCO is composed of two Colpitts oscillators which are cross-coupled with PMOS pair. For the comparison of phase noise with the proposed scheme, the conventional LC VCO followed by the frequency-divide-by-two is designed. The simulation result demonstrate that the proposed scheme shows better phase noise performance by 6dB than that of a conventional scheme in which LC VCO is followed by the frequency-divide-by-two.

• 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.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.35-38
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• 2010

A fully integrated parallel-coupled 6-GHz quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator (QVCO) has been designed. The symmetrical parallel-coupled quadrature VCO is implemented using 0.13-${\mu}m$ CMOS process. The measured phase noise is -101.05 dBc/Hz at an offset frequency of 1 MHz. The tuning range of 710 MHz is achieved with a control voltage ranging from 0.3 to 1.4 V. The average output phase error is about $1.26^{\circ}$ including cables and connectors. The QVCO dissipates 10 mA including buffer from the 1.5 V supply voltage. The output characteristic of the differential injection-locked frequency divider (DILFD), which has similar topology to the QVCO, is presented.