Wide Tuning Range LC-VCO Using Variable Inductor for Reconfigurable RF Circuit

Yoshiaki YOSHIHARA
Hirotaka SUGAWARA
Hiroyuki ITO
Kenichi OKADA
Kazuya MASU

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E88-A    No.2    pp.507-512
Publication Date: 2005/02/01
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e88-a.2.507
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Analog Circuit Techniques and Related Topics)
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Keyword: 
VCO,  oscillator,  variable inductor,  reconfigurable RF circuit,  

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Summary: 
This paper presents a novel wide tuning range CMOS Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO). VCO uses an on-chip variable inductor as an additional variable element to extend the tuning range of VCO. The fabricated variable inductor achieves the variable range of 35%. The VCO was fabricated using 0.35 µm standard CMOS process, and can be tuned continuously from 2.13 GHz to 3.28 GHz (tuning range of 38%) without degradation of phase noise. Wide tunable LC-VCO using a variable inductor is one of the key circuits for reconfigurable RF circuit.

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