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 …

This paper discusses the design of on-chip transformer-based fourth order filters, suitable for
mm-Wave highly sensitive broadband low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) and receivers (RXs) …

An oscillator topology demonstrating an improved phase noise performance is proposed in
this paper. It exploits the time-variant phase noise model with insights into the phase noise …

This tutorial illustrates the main features of the doubly-tuned transformer networks, focusing
on the various regimes of operation, the behavior around resonance, and the related …

There is a lower bound on the size of a planar inductor below which significant Q-
degradation occurs. While this bound can limit the absolute performance of an LC oscillator …

In this paper, we exploit an idea of coupling multiple oscillators to reduce phase noise (PN)
to beyond the limit of what has been practically achievable so far in a bulk CMOS …

This paper presents class-D CMOS oscillators capable of an excellent phase noise
performance from a very low power supply voltage. Starting from the recognition of the time …

This paper presents two class-C CMOS VCOs with a dynamic bias of the core transistors,
which maximizes the oscillation amplitude without compromising the robustness of the …

This article proposes a quad-core millimeter-wave (mm-wave) voltage-controlled oscillator
(VCO) using a compact multi-mode magnetically coupled LC network. The network can be …

We introduce a novel frequency tuning method for high-power terahertz sources in CMOS. In
this technique, multiple core oscillators are coupled to generate, combine, and deliver their …