Design of 5 GHz low-power CMOS LC VCO based on complementary cross-coupled topology with modified tail current-shaping technique meng-ting hsu, po-hung chen and yao-yen leeIn this paper, a low-power CMOS LC voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) with body-biasing and low-phase noise with Q-enhancement techniques is presented. A self-body biased circuit is introduced that can reduce power consumption. Some derivations of the Q-enhancement and how to improve the phase noise of the circuit are also discussed. This chip is implemented by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacture Company 0.18 mm 1P6M process. The measurement results exhibit a tuning range of 14.7% from 4.92 to 5.7 GHz at a supply voltage of 1.4 V. The power consumption of the core circuit and figure of merit are 2.5 mW and 2188.6 dBc/Hz. The phase noise is 2118 dBc/Hz@1 MHz at an operation frequency of 4.94 GHz.