{"title":"A 1.57 GHz fully integrated very low phase noise quadrature VCO","authors":"P. Vancorenland, M. Steyaert","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2001.934210","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A very low phase noise quadrature VCO is presented, featuring an inherently better figure of merit than the existing architectures. Through an improved circuit schematic and a special layout technique, the phase noise of the circuit could be lowered to stand amongst the lowest published. The circuit draws 15 mA from a 2 V supply. The phase noise is -136.5 dBc/Hz@600 kHz and the tuning range is 24% wide at a center frequency of 1.57 GHz. The figure of merit outperforms other published QVCOs.","PeriodicalId":346869,"journal":{"name":"2001 Symposium on VLSI Circuits. Digest of Technical Papers (IEEE Cat. No.01CH37185)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2001-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"80","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2001 Symposium on VLSI Circuits. Digest of Technical Papers (IEEE Cat. No.01CH37185)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2001.934210","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A very low phase noise quadrature VCO is presented, featuring an inherently better figure of merit than the existing architectures. Through an improved circuit schematic and a special layout technique, the phase noise of the circuit could be lowered to stand amongst the lowest published. The circuit draws 15 mA from a 2 V supply. The phase noise is -136.5 dBc/Hz@600 kHz and the tuning range is 24% wide at a center frequency of 1.57 GHz. The figure of merit outperforms other published QVCOs.