A spread-spectrum clock generator with direct VCO modulation in open-loop

Mo, Huaping; Kim, Daejeong

doi:10.1587/elex.14.20170417

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“…Compared with [24] to [26], the proposed VCO achieves a lower phase noise and wider frequency tuning range in K-band. Meanwhile, compared with the low-frequency VCOs in [11,27,28,29], the FoM and FoM T of the proposed design are much lower, showing better overall performance. Owing to the varactor compensation technique, the variation of K VCO of this design is only 9.1%, which shows better linearity.…”

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A linear dual-control-voltage K-band VCO with a Gilbert frequency multiplier

Huang

Sun

et al. 2022

IEICE Electron. Express

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This letter presents a linear K-band voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) with a Gilbert frequency multiplier. Three pairs of varactors form a varactor compensation topology to broaden the linear frequency range and improve the VCO linearity. The varactors are tuned by two control voltages so that the frequency can be tuned in a wide range continuously. A Gilbert cell-based frequency multiplier is implemented to achieve the desired frequency with low phase noise. Fabricated in 0.13 µm CMOS technology, the total area of the proposed VCO is approximately 0.28 mm 2 . This VCO achieves a tuning range of 21.4 to 25 GHz (15.5%), and a linear tuning range between 0.5 V to 1.8 V control voltage, the mismatch of the VCO gain is only 9.1% in the linear tuning range. The output phase noise reaches −75.13 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz offset frequency and −108.53 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset frequency from the 24.2 GHz carrier frequency, respectively.

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