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National Changhua University Department of Graduate Institute of Integrated Circuit Design

Programmable active inductor-based wideband VCO/QVCO design G. Huang B.-S. Kim Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, IET Page (s):830-838 Dec. 2008. National Changhua University Department of Graduate Institute of Integrated Circuit Design Advisor : Dr. Zhi-Ming Lin Advisee : Shi-Hao Zheng.

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National Changhua University Department of Graduate Institute of Integrated Circuit Design

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  1. Programmable active inductor-based wideband VCO/QVCO designG. Huang B.-S. KimMicrowaves, Antennas & Propagation, IETPage (s):830-838 Dec. 2008 National Changhua University Department of Graduate Institute of Integrated Circuit Design Advisor : Dr. Zhi-Ming Lin Advisee : Shi-Hao Zheng

  2. outline • Abstract • Introduction • Active inductor design • Programmable wideband VCO/QVCO design • Phase-noise analysis of the proposed VCO topology • Measurement results • Conclusions

  3. Abstract • Programmable wideband VCO and QVCO which adopt modified gyrator-C-type active inductors with PMOS transistors in the feedback path are presented here.

  4. Introduction • There are mainly two approaches to integrate the multimode and multi-band systems. 1.Parallel integration of many receivers on the chip level sharing the common blocks each maintaining a signal path. 2.Software-defined radio (SDR) system. Among 1. and 2., either multiple local oscillators (LO) or a programmable wideband LO is required. • The programmable wideband LO is more attractive than the multiple LOs in the modern IC design, due to its characteristic of small chip size and low power dissipation.

  5. Active inductor design

  6. Programmable wideband VCO/QVCO design

  7. Phase-noise analysis of the proposed VCO topology

  8. The total noise current of the active inductor-based VCO is much larger than that of the passive LC-VCO. • However, the noise power from the active inductor can be reduced by increasing the feedback resistor Rv or parasitic capacitor Cv, but that lowers the oscillation frequency and frequency tuning range. • Therefore, a trade-off among phase noise, oscillation frequency and tuning range must be considered for the design of wideband VCO based on the active inductor.

  9. Measurement results

  10. Conclusions

  11. Thank you for your attention!

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