Frequency scaling and topology comparison of millimeter-wave CMOS VCOs

Technical Digest - IEEE Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium, CSIC

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 55-58

  Tang, K W ^a   Leung, S ^a   Tieu, N ^a   Schvan, P ^b   Voinigescu, S P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NORTEL NETWORKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

CMOS; Colpitts; Cross coupled; Figure of merit; Frequency scaling; Millimeter wave; VCO

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHASE NOISE; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

ALGORITHMIC DESIGNS; CMOS COLPITTS; CMOS VCO; COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR (CS); CROSS-COUPLED; FIGURE-OF-MERIT (FOM); FREQUENCY SCALING; MILLIMETER-WAVE (MM-WAVE); OUTPUT POWERS; TUNING RANGE (TR);

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 34548258424     PISSN: 15508781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSICS.2006.319873     Document Type: Conference Paper

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