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Quadrature Hartley VCO and Injection-Locked Frequency Divider Sheng-Lyang JANG Chia-Wei CHANG Sheng-Chien WU Chien-Feng LEE Lin-yen TSAI Jhin-Fang HUANG Publication IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E91-C No.8 pp.1371-1374 Publication Date: 2008/08/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1353 DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e91-c.8.1371 Print ISSN: 0916-8516 Type of Manuscript: LETTER Category: Electronic Circuits Keyword: CMOS, Hartley oscillator, injection locked frequency divider, quadrature VCO, Full Text: PDF>>
Summary: Novel low phase noise quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator (QVCO) and quadrature injection locked frequency divider (QILFD) with two coupled Hartley VCOs are proposed and implemented using the standard TSMC 0.18 µm CMOS 1P6M process. The QVCO employs pMOS as the core to reduce the up-conversion of low-frequency device noise to RF phase noise. It uses super-harmonic coupling technique to couple two differential Hartley VCOs and four small-size coupling transistors to set the directivity of quadrature output phases. At the 1.7 V supply voltage, the output phase noise of the QVCO is -124 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset frequency from the carrier frequency of 4.12 GHz, and the figure of merit is -185 dBc/Hz. At the supply voltage of 1.7 V, the total power consumption is 13.1 mW. At the supply voltage of 1.5 V, the tuning range of the free-running QILFD is from 2.05 GHz to 2.36 GHz, about 310 MHz, and the locking range of the ILFD is from 3.99 to 5.19 GHz, about 1.20 GHz, at the injection signal power of 0 dBm. | |||||
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