• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.83-87
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• 2004

Phase noise performance and current consumption of Radio Frequency (RF) Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (VCO) are largely dependent on the Quality (Q) factor of inductor-capacitor (LC) tank. Because the Q-factor of LC tank is determined by on-chip spiral inductor, we designed, analyzed, and modeled on-chip differential inductor to enhance differential Q-factor, reduce current consumption and save silicon area. The simulated inductance is 3.3 nH and Q-factor is 15 at 2 GHz. Self-resonance frequency is as high as 13 GHz. To verify its use to RF applications, we designed 2 GHz differential LC VCO. The measurement result of phase noise is -112 dBc/Hz at an offset frequency of 100 kHz from a 2GHz carrier frequency. Tuning range is about 500 MHz (25%), and current consumption varies from 5mA to 8.4 mA using bias control technique. Implemented in $0.35-{\mu}m$ SiGe BiCMOS technology, the VCO occupies $400\;um{\times}800\;um$ of silicon area.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.507-511
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• 2010

Digital Radio Frequency Memory (below, DRFM) performs RF signal data store, delay and re-transmission. DRFM is wildly used as core module of Jammer, EW simulator, Target Echo Generator etc. This paper suggests a hardware design of DRFM which is composed RF section(RF Input/Output Module, Local Oscillator Module) and Digital section(ADC module, memory, DAC module), and confirm the validity of the propose by the test result.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.1-10
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• 2006

In this paper, a broadband RF module is designed and tested for 2.4GHz band applications. The RF module is composed of a low noise amplifier (LNA) with a three stage amplifier, a single ended gate mixer, matching circuits, a hairpin line band pass filter and a Chebyshev low pass filter to convert the radio frequency (RF) into the intermediate frequency (IF). The LNA has a high gain and stability, and the single ended gate mixer has a high conversion gain and wide dynamic range. In the analysis of the broadband RF module, the composite harmonic balance technique is used to analyze the operating characteristics of an RF module circuit. The RF module has a 55.2dB conversion gain with a 1.54dB low noise figure, $-120{\sim}-60dBm$ wide RF power dynamic range, -60dBm low harmonic spectrum and a good isolation factor among the RF, IF, and local oscillator (LO) ports.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.63-69
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• 2008

Reconfigurable RF one-chip solutions have been researched with the objective of designing for smaller-sized and more economical RF transceiver and it can be applied to a vehicular wireless terminal. The proposed voltage-controlled oscillator satisfies the targeted frequency range ($4.2{\sim}5.4\;GHz$) and the frequency planning which correspond to the standards such as CDMA(IS-95), PCS, GSM850, EGSM, WCDMA, WLAN, Bluetooth, WiBro, S-DMB, DSRC, GPS, and DVB-H/DMB-H/L(L Band). In order to improve phase noise performance, PMOS is adopted in the cross-coupled pair, the tail current source and MOS varactor in this VCO and differential-typed switching is proposed in capacitor array. Based on the measurement results, a total power dissipation is $5.3{\sim}6.0\;mW$ at 1.8 V power supply voltage. The oscillator is tuned from 4.05 to 5.62 GHz; The tuning range is 33%. The phase noise is -117.16 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset frequency and the FOM (Figure Of Merit) is $-180.84{\sim}-180.5$.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and information Science
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• v.2 no.6
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• pp.202-207
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• 1997

Design and fabrication issues for an L-band GaAs Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit(MMIC) Voltage Controlled Oscillator(VCO) as a component of Personal Communications Systems(PCS) Radio Frequency(RF) transceiver are discussed. An ion-implanted GaAs MESFET tailored toward low current and low noise with 0.5mm gate length and 300mm gate width has been used as an active device, while an FET with the drain shorted to the source has been used as the voltage variable capacitor. The principal design was based on a self-biased FET with capacitive feedback. A tuning range of 140MHz and 58MHz has been obtained by 3V change for a 600mm and a 300mm devices, respectively. The oscillator output power was 6.5dBm wth 14mA DC current supply at 3.6V. The phase noise without any buffer or PLL was 93dB/1Hz at 100KHz offset. Harmonic balance analysis was used for the non-linear simulation after a linear simulation. All layout induced parasitics were incorporated into the simulation with EEFET2 non-linear FET model. The fabricated circuits were measured using a coplanar-type probe for bare chips and test jigs with ceramic packages.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.90-98
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• 1999

This paper presents a wideband single-balanced mixer using a diode which can be used in RF receiver of microwave measurement systems. For wideband characteristic, local oscillator(LO) signal is provided to diode with low loss using a coplanar waveguide-to-slotline balun. For high isolation characteristic radio frequency (RF) port and intermediate frequency (IF) port are designed using directional coupler. This mixer presents 30.5~31.17dB conversion loss whose flatness is within 1dB for 9 kHz~2.6 GHz wideband RF signal, and above 30 dB isolation for LO signal.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.299-306
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• 2016

In this paper, a vital sign sensor based on impedance variation of resonator is proposed to detect the respiration and heartbeat signals within near-field range as a function of the separation distance between resonator and subject. The sensor consists of an oscillator with a built-in planar type patch resonator, a diplexer for only pass the second harmonic frequency, amplifier, SAW filter, and RF detector. The cardiac activity of a subject such as respiration and heartbeat causes the variation of the oscillation frequency corresponding impedance variation of the resonator within near-field range. The combination of the second harmonic oscillation frequency deviation and the superior skirt frequency of the SAW filter enables the proposed sensor to extend twice detection range. The experimental results reveal that the proposed sensor placed 40 mm away from a subject can reliably detect respiration and heartbeat signals.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.453-458
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• 2010

In this work, a 18 GHz divide-by-4 injection-locked frequency divider(ILFD) based on ring oscillator has been developed in $0.13-{\mu}m$ Si RFCMOS technology. The free-running oscillation frequency is from 4.98 to 5.22 GHz and output power is about －30 dBm, consuming 33.4 mW with a 1.5 V supply voltage. At 0 dBm input power, the locking range is 3.5 GHz(17.75~21.25 GHz) and with varactor tuning, the operating range is increased up to 5.25 GHz(16.0~21.25 GHz). The fabricated chip size is $0.76\;mm{\times}0.57\;mm$ including DC and RF pad.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.492-498
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• 2015

As the integration of circuit components increases steadily, various EMS(Electromagnetic Susceptibility) problems have emerged from integrated circuits and electrical systems. The electromagnetic susceptibility of VCOs(Voltage Controlled Oscillator) is especially critical in RF systems. Therefore, in this paper, through the phase noise theory that models electrical oscillators as linear time variant systems, the EMS characteristics of representative VCO -ring VCO and LC VCO- with 1.2 GHz of reference oscillating frequency are analyzed under the existence of the electromagnetic noise coupled in power supply. An simulation algorithm is developed to extract impulse response function based on the phase noise theory. When there is no supply noise, the magnitude of the jitter of two oscillators were similar to around 2.1 ps, but in presence of supply noise, the jitter was significantly lower in LC VCOs than ring VCOs.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.7-12
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• 2011

This paper proposes a differential Colpitts-VCO circuit suitable for low phase noise oscillation at the sub-1V supply voltage. Oscillation with low phase noise at the sub-1V supply voltage is facilitated by employing inductors as the current sources of the proposed circuit. One of the two feedback capacitors of the single-ended Colpitts oscillator in the proposed circuit is replaced with the MOS varactor in order to further reduce the resonator loss. Post-layout simulation results using a $0.18{\mu}m$ RF CMOS technology show that the phase noises at the 1MHz offset frequency of the proposed circuit oscillating at the sub-1V supply voltages of 0.6 to 0.9 V are at least 7 dBc/Hz lower than those of the well-known cross-coupled differential VCO.