A 20 GHz Push-Push Voltage-Controlled Oscillator Using Second-Harmonic Peaking Technique for a 60 GHz Frequency Synthesizer

Teerachot SIRIBURANON  Takahiro SATO  Ahmed MUSA  Wei DENG  Kenichi OKADA  Akira MATSUZAWA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics   Vol.E96-C   No.6   pp.804-812
Publication Date: 2013/06/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1353
DOI: 10.1587/transele.E96.C.804
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Analog Circuits and Related SoC Integration Technologies)
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Keyword: 
low phase noise,  low power,  tail-current modulation,  impulse sensitivity function,  super-harmonic coupled QVCO,  push-push VCO,  

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Summary: 
This paper presents a 20 GHz push-push VCO realized by a 10 GHz super-harmonic coupled quadrature oscillator for a quadrature 60 GHz frequency synthesizer. The output nodes are peaked by a tunable second harmonic resonator. The proposed VCO is implemented in 65 nm CMOS process. It achieves a tuning range of 3.5 GHz from 16.1 GHz to 19.6 GHz with a phase noise of -106 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset. The power consumption of the core oscillators is 10.3 mW and an FoM of -181.3 dBc/Hz is achieved.