Design and optimization of a low-noise cross-coupled fundamental VCO IN 90nm CMOS FOR 60GHz applications

2011 IEEE 11th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, SiRF 2011 - Digest of Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 13-16

  Katz, Alex ^a   Degani, Ofir ^a   Socher, Eran ^a  

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Author keywords

Accumulated mode MOS (AMOS); CMOS; Phase noise; Voltage controlled oscillators (VCO)

Indexed keywords

90NM CMOS; ACCUMULATED-MODE MOS (AMOS); ANALOG CONTROLS; CMOS; CROSS-COUPLED; DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION; DIGITAL CONTROL; FREQUENCY TUNING RANGE; FUNDAMENTAL VCO; LOW NOISE; PARAMETRIC STUDY; SEMIEMPIRICAL RELATIONS; STANDARD CMOS TECHNOLOGY; TUNING RANGES; VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED OSCILLATORS (VCO);

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PHASE NOISE; RADIOFREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY; TUNING;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 79952840083     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIRF.2011.5719316     Document Type: Conference Paper

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