Wide-tunable LC-VCO design with a novel active inductor

MM Kizmaz, N Herencsar, O Cicekoglu - AEU-International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents the design of a wide-tunable, low-voltage, small-area LC voltage-
controlled oscillator (LC-VCO). Instead of a spiral inductor, a novel active inductor is used in …

A 1-mW 1.13–1.9 GHz CMOS LC VCO using shunt-connected switched-coupled inductors

A Italia, CM Ippolito, G Palmisano - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A low-power wideband LC VCO has been designed and implemented in a 90-nm CMOS
technology. Wide tuning range, low phase noise and low power consumption are achieved …

A voltage-controlled ring oscillator based on an FGMOS transistor

SM Sharroush - Microelectronics journal, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper can be divided into two parts. The first part contains a comprehensive survey on
the applications of voltage-controlled oscillators and the innovations in their designs. The …

260- W DCO With Constant Current Over PVT Variations Using FLL and Adjustable LDO

H Abbasizadeh, I Ali, BS Rikan, DS Lee… - … on Circuits and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this brief, the design of an ultralow power digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) for Bluetooth
low-energy applications is proposed. The DCO core is designed to operate in the …

An Area-Efficient CMOS Cross-Coupled LC-VCO Using Nested Intertwined Tail Inductors

H An, H Nam, S Kim, Y Lim… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An area-efficient CMOS cross-coupled LC-VCO, operating from 5.74 GHz to 8.02 GHz and
featuring a tail noise filter with two tail inductors integrated inside the main inductor, is …

A negative feedback looped voltage-controlled ring oscillator with frequency voltage converter

YS Choi - IEEE transactions on microwave theory and …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a negative feedback looped voltage-controlled ring oscillator (VCRO)
with a frequency voltage converter (FVC) to suppress the phase noise. Measurement results …

Device aging in analog circuits for nanoelectronic CMOS technologies

FR Chouard - 2012 - mediatum.ub.tum.de
The trend in microelectronics to reduce device dimensions leads to increasing and new
aging effects in the devices. This requires a continuous optimisation of the fabrication …

A 5.8 GHz and-192.9 dBc/Hz FoMt CMOS class-B capacitively-coupled VCO with Gm-enhancement

TN Nguyen, P Agarwal, D Heo - 2016 IEEE MTT-S International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel gm enhancement method to minimize the oscillation start-up
current in a CMOS voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO). A class-B biasing is achieved by …

Design and implementation of switched coil LC‐VCOs in the GHz range using the self‐inductance technique

F Cernoia, D Ponton, P Palestri… - … Journal of Circuit …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents the design and implementation of dual‐band LC‐VCOs in the GHz‐
range featuring a switched coil LC‐tank. The proposed design exploits the self‐inductance …

Design of low power 3.3–4 GHz LC VCO using CMODE

UK Nanda, PK Rout, DP Acharya… - 2013 IEEE International …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
CMODE (Combining Multi-objective Optimization with Differential Evolution) technique has
been proved to be very efficient to design a low power low phase noise LC Voltage …