A 24GHz MMIC (monolithic microwave integrated circuit) oscillator with an area consumption of only 280gm. 360gm including all biasing and probing pads is presented.To obtain this small size lumped elements were used. The oscillator was realized in the production line process offered by Temic Semiconductors GmbH using standard transistors and a low resistivity (2Om) substrate 1ll. The oscillation power is -5dBm and the phase noise at lMHz off-carrier is -108dBc/Hz. 1Ii i2 U2 U1