A 60GHz miller effect based VCO in 65nm CMOS with 10.5% tuning range

2009 9th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF System, SiRF'09 - Digest of Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 9-12

  Lont, Maarten ^a   Mahmoudi, Reza ^a   Van der Heijden, Edwin ^b   De Graauw, Anton ^b   Sakian, Pooyan ^a   Baltus, Peter ^a   Van Roermund, Arthur ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b NXP Research   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Miller effect; Millimeter wave; Phase noise; VCO

Indexed keywords

65NM CMOS TECHNOLOGY; FREQUENCY RANGES; MILLER CAPACITANCE; MILLER EFFECT; MILLER EFFECTS; OUTPUT POWER; TUNING RANGES; TUNING SYSTEM; VCO; VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; PHASE NOISE; TUNING;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 65949111079     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SMIC.2009.4770487     Document Type: Conference Paper

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