Low-phase-noise 54GHz quadrature VCO and 76GHz/90GHz VCOs in 65nm CMOS process

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 257-260

  Xi, Tianzuo ^a   Guo, Shita ^a   Gui, Ping ^a   Zhang, Jing ^b   Kenneth, K O ^b   Fan, Yanli ^c   Huang, Daquan ^c   Gu, Richard ^c   Morgan, Mark ^c  

^a Southern Methodist University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

Author keywords

phase noise; quadrature VCO (QVCO); transconductance linearization; transformer; VCO

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; PHASE NOISE;

DESIGN TECHNIQUE; FEEDBACK TECHNIQUES; FREQUENCY RANGES; QUADRATURE VCO; TRANSCONDUCTANCE LINEARITY; TRANSCONDUCTANCE LINEARIZATION; TRANSFORMER; TRANSFORMER COUPLING;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 84904976235     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2014.6851713     Document Type: Conference Paper

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