A 60-GHz low DC power self-injection coupling CMOS quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator with high quadrature accuracy

Chi Hsien Lin, Yu Cheng Liu, Yen Liang Yeh, Han Chi Chiu, Hong Yeh Chang

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Abstract

A 60-GHz high quadrature accuracy low dc power quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator (QVCO) using self-injection coupling (SIC) is proposed and demonstrated in 90 nm CMOS technology. By using SIC technique, this QVCO achieves low phase noise and good quadrature accuracy. Moreover, the amplitude/phase errors of the QVCO are fully characterized via a four-port vector network analyzer. The proposed 60-GHz QVCO exhibits a phase noise of -95 dBc/Hz at 1-MHz offset frequency, an amplitude error of 0.12 dB, and a phase errors of 1.2°. The dc power consumption is 13.3 mW with a supply voltage of 0.7 V. The chip size of the proposed QVCO is 0.75×0.6 mm2. This work has the lowest dc power consumption and the best figure-of-merits with high quadrature accuracy among the all reported millimeter-wave CMOS QVCOs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest, MTT 2013
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest, MTT 2013 - Seattle, WA, United States
Duration: 2 Jun 20137 Jun 2013

Publication series

NameIEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest
ISSN (Print)0149-645X

Conference

Conference2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest, MTT 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySeattle, WA
Period2/06/137/06/13

Keywords

  • CMOS
  • Low dc power
  • Low phase noise
  • Quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator (QVCO)

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