A 5.9-to-7.8 GHz VCO in 65 nm CMOS using high-Q inductor in an embedded Wafer Level BGA package

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Issakov, Vadim ^a   Wojnowski, Maciej ^a   Knoblinger, Gerhard ^b   Fulde, Michael ^b   Pressel, Klaus ^a   Sommer, Grit ^a  

^a INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

^b INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG   (Austria)

Author keywords

embedded inductors; packages; phase noise; Voltage controlled oscillators (VCO)

Indexed keywords

BGA PACKAGE; CARRIER OFFSET; CHIP-SCALE; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; EMBEDDED INDUCTORS; FAN-OUT; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH-Q INDUCTORS; LC TANKS; ONCHIP INDUCTORS; OUTPUT POWER; PACKAGES; QUALITY FACTORS; VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR; VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED OSCILLATORS (VCO); WAFER LEVEL;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS; PHASE NOISE; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

ELECTRIC INDUCTORS;

EID: 80052306481     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2011.5972817     Document Type: Conference Paper

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