• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.172-176
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• 2020

The implementation of a low phase noise voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) is important for the signal integrity of wireless communication terminal. A low phase noise wideband VCO for a wireless local area network (WLAN) application is presented in this paper. A 6-bit coarse tune capacitor bank (capbank) and a fine tune varactor are used in the VCO to cover the target band. The simulated oscillation frequency tuning range is from 8.6 to 11.6 GHz. The proposed VCO is desgned using 65 nm CMOS technology with a high quality (Q) factor bondwire inductor. The VCO is biased with 1.8 V VDD and shows 9.7 mA current consumption. The VCO exhibits a phase noise of -122.77 and -111.14 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset from 8.6 and 11.6 GHz carrier frequency, respectively. The calculated figure of merit(FOM) is -189 dBC/Hz at 1 MHz offset from 8.6 GHz carrier. The simulated results show that the proposed VCO performance satisfies the required specification of WLAN standard.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.67-73
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• 2008

Reconfigurable radio technology is needed to reconstruct frequency and modem functionality, which can be different within various regions. In addition, it makes it possible for a single mobile handset to support various standards of wireless communication, and thus plays a key role inmobile convergence. A MMIC VCO(Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit Voltage Controlled Oscillator) has been developed to produce high power and wide bandwidth that adapts the Clapp-Gouriet type oscillator for series feedback. We were fabricated based on the 0.15um pHEMT from TRW. The MMIC VCO was connected to an alumina substrate on the carrier for testing. This MMIC VCO module shows good performance when compared with existing VCOs. Futhermore, it has potential as a reconfigurable MMIC VCO for ubiquitous communications such as LMDS (Local Multipoint Distribution Service), VSAT, Point to Point Radio and SATCOM.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2000년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.3181-3183
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• 2000

As the fact that the simple data of text and sound in early year have been changed to be high quality images and sounds. PLL(Phase-Locked Loop) system plays an important role in communication system. VCO(Voltage Controlled Oscillator) is the most important part in PLL system because it can have critical effects on operation of PLL. Recently, it has been raised the necessity of high speed and high accuracy circuit application. In this paper, a new differential voltage clamped VCO using negative-skewed path is suggested. Using a dual-delay scheme to implement the VCO, higher operation frequency and wider tuning are achieved simultaneously. The dual-delay scheme means that both the negative skewed delay paths and the normal delay paths exist in the same ring oscillator. The negative skewed delay paths decrease the unit delay time of the ring oscillator below the single inverter delay time. As a result, higher operation frequency can be obtained. The whole characteristics of VCO are simulated by using HSPICE. Simulation results show that the resulting operating frequencies are 50% higher than those obtainable from the conventional approaches.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.116-126
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 2.4[GHz]와 5[GHz]로 동작하는 Dual-band WLAN 송신기의 설계에 대하여 기술한다. Dual-band WLAN 송신기는 2.4[GHz] 대역과 5[GHz] 대역에서 각각 동작할 수 있도록 설계되었다. 이중대역의 구조를 갖는 송신 부는 2.4[GHz] 과 5[GHz] 주파수에서 동작하는 증폭기와 두 개의 VCO(Voltage Controlled Oscillator)또는 주파수 가변 범위가 매우 넓은 VCO를 사용해야 한다. 이 문제는 크기와 소비전력으로 나타나며, 이를 해결하기 위하여 이중대역 송신 모듈을 제안하였다. 이 송신부는 단일 송신 블럭을 사용하여 입력되는 주파수와 인가하는 바이어스 전압에 따라, IEEE 802.11b/g의 2.4[GHz] 대역신호에 대해서는 증폭기로 동작하고 IEEE로 802.11a의 5.8[GHz] 대역신호는 주파수 체배 방식을 이용하여 출력신호를 얻도록 설계하였다. 출력스펙트럼은 중심주파수에서 각각 +11[GHz], +20[MHz], +30[MHz] offset인 주파수에서 적응형 방식이 아닌 경우와 비교하여 4[dB], 6[dB], 16[dB]의 ACPR특성이 향상되었으며, IEEE 802.11a 무선 랜 송신스펙트럼 마스크 규격을 만족하였다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.51-56
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• 2003

We describe a charge pump circuit using VCO (voltage controlled oscillator) for storing information into local memories in neural networks. The VCO is used for adjusting the output voltage of the charge pump to the reference voltage and for reducing the fluctuation generated by the clocking scheme. The charge pump circuit is simulated by using Hynix 0.35um CMOS process parameters. The proposed charge pump operates properly regardless to the temperature and the supply voltage variation.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2001년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.721-724
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• 2001

In this paper, we present the effect the length the MSL(Microstrip Line) on the oscillation characteristic of the fabricated VCOs(Voltage Controlled Oscillator) designed and analyzed by RF circuit simulator Serenade(ANSOFT Co.) and fabricated by screen printing method on the alumina substrate. We have fabricated VCOs with 3 different MSL length and each MSL length of the VCO is 140mi1, 280mil and 560mi1. The oscillation frequency of each sample(VCO) was tuned to UHF band(750MHz∼900MHz) varying the capacitance. The experimental result shows the phase noise -82∼-97[dBc/Hz] at a 50 [kHz] offset frequency, the pushing figure 94∼318[kHz] at 3${\pm}$0.15[V] and the harmonics 13∼21 [dBc] between MSL length 140mi1s and 560mi1. The frequency and output variation width are 779∼898[MHz], -36∼-33[dBm] at MSL length 140mi1; 818∼836[MHz], -27.19∼-27.06[dBm] at 280mi1;751.54∼751.198[MHz],-33.44∼ -33.31[dBm] at 560mi1. we examined 3 VCOs oscillation characteristic difference through comparison with phase noise, oscillation power and frequency by control voltage change, harmonics and pushing figure for each sample.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.325-328
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• 2020

This paper demonstrated a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) using cost-effective (1-poly 6-metal) mixed signal standard CMOS process. To have the high-quality factor inductor in LC resonator with thin metal thickness, patterned-ground shields (PGS) was adopted under the spiral to effectively reduce the ac current of low resistive Si substrate. And, because of thin top-metal compared with that of RF option (2 ㎛), we make electrically connect between the top metal (M6) and the next metal (M5) by great number of via array along the metal traces. The circuit operated from 2.48 GHz to 2.62 GHz tuned by accumulation-mode varactor device. And the measured phase noise of LC VCO has -123.7 dBc/Hz at 1MHz offset at 2.62 GHz and the dc-power consumption shows 2.07 mW with 1.8V supply voltage, respectively.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제15권9호
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• pp.820-825
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 TV set-top tuner용으로 사용할 수 있는 옥타브 밴드를 갖는 전압제어 발진기를 설계하였다. 측정 결과, 주파수 튜닝 범위는 0.9 GHz～2.2 GHz로써 1.3 GHz의 발진 대역을 갖는다. 광대역 튜닝과 선형성, 그리고 일정한 위상 잡음 성능을 유지하기 위해 트랜지스터의 베이스와 에미터부에 모두 4개의 배랙터 다이오드를 사용한 것이 특징이다. 개발된 전압제어발진기는 0 V～20 V의 제어 전압과 10 V, 15 mA의 공급 전력을 필요로 한다. 출력 전력은 5.3 dBm을 중심으로 약 $\pm$1.1 dB의 편차를 갖고, 위상 잡음은 전 발진 대역에서 -94.8 dBc/Hz ＠ 10 kHz offset 이하의 값을 보인다. 선형성은 평균적으로 65 MHz/V이고 $\pm$10 MHz의 편차를 보인다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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• pp.770-773
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• 2002

Two sinusoidal voltage-controlled oscillators using linear operational transconductance amplifiers are presented in this paper: One is based on the positive-feedback bandpass oscillator model and the other on the negative-feedback Colpitts model. The bandpass VCO consists of a noninverting amplifier and a current-controlled LC-tuned circuit which is realized by two linear OTA's and two grounded capacitors, while the Colpitts VCO consists of an inverting amplifier and a current-controlled LC-tuned circuit realized by three linear OTA's and three grounded capacitors. Prototype circuits have been built with discrete components. The experimental results have shown that the Colpitts VCO has a linearity error of less than 5 percent, a temperature coefficient of less than rm 100 ppm/$^{circ}C$, and a $pm1.5 Hz $frequency drift over an oscillation frequency range from 712Hz to 6.3kHz. A total harmonic distortion of 0.3 percent has been measured for a 3.3kHz oscillation and the corresponding peak-to-peak amplitude was 1V. The experimental results for bandpass VCO are also presented.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.313-321
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• 2014

A low-power low-cost polar transmitter for EDGE is designed in $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS. A differential delta-sigma modulator (DSM) tunes a three-terminal voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) to perform RF phase modulation, where the VCO tuning curve is digitally pre-compensated for high linearity and the carrier frequency is calibrated by a dual-mode low-power frequency-locked loop (FLL). A digital intermediate-frequency (IF) pulse-width5 modulator (PWM) drives a complementary power-switch followed by an LC filter to achieve envelope modulation with high efficiency. The proposed transmitter with 9mW power dissipation relaxes the time alignment between the phase and envelope modulations, and achieves an error vector magnitude (EVM) of 4% and phase noise of -123dBc/Hz at 400kHz offset frequency.