This brief overviews the development of high-performance single-core voltage-controlled
oscillators (VCOs) employing a multi-LC tank over the past two decades. From the circuit …

A deep understanding of how to reduce flicker phase noise (PN) in oscillators is critical in
supporting ultra-low PN frequency generation for the advanced communications and other …

Class-C operation is leveraged to implement a K-band CMOS voltage-controlled oscillator
(VCO) where the upconversion of 1/f current noise from the cross-coupled transistors in the …

A millimeter-wave current-reuse voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) features a single-turn
multi-tap inductor and two separate differential-only switched-capacitor arrays to improve the …

For the non-stop demands for a better and smarter society, the number of electronic devices
keeps increasing exponentially; and the computation power, communication data rate, smart …

To satisfy the requirements for multi-standard frequency generation, mode-switching
oscillators are developed to increase the frequency tuning range without incurring …

This paper presents a millimeter-wave NMOS-PMOS-complementary (CMOS) VCO with a
multi-resonant Resistor-Inductor-Capacitor-Mutual Inductance (RLCM) tank. It features an 8 …

With the development of 5G wireless network and beyond, the wireless carrier frequency will
definitely reach millimeter-wave (mm-wave) and even terahertz (THz). As one of the key …

In this paper, the dual common-mode (CM) resonance technique is proposed for lowering
the phase noise (PN) and flicker PN corner of LC voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs) …

Conventional SC-based charge pump with fixed conversion ratio is predominantly adopted
in energy harvesting (EH) systems, which becomes a bottleneck for attaining high power …