Wide Tuning Range LC-VCO Using Variable Inductor for Reconfigurable RF Circuit

Yoshiaki YOSHIHARA; Hirotaka SUGAWARA; Hiroyuki ITO; Kenichi OKADA; Kazuya MASU

doi:10.1093/ietfec/e88-a.2.507

Wide Tuning Range LC-VCO Using Variable Inductor for Reconfigurable RF Circuit

Yoshiaki YOSHIHARA, Hirotaka SUGAWARA, Hiroyuki ITO, Kenichi OKADA, Kazuya MASU

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This paper presents a novel wide tuning range CMOS Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO). VCO uses an on-chip variable inductor as an additional variable element to extend the tuning range of VCO. The fabricated variable inductor achieves the variable range of 35%. The VCO was fabricated using 0.35 µm standard CMOS process, and can be tuned continuously from 2.13 GHz to 3.28 GHz (tuning range of 38%) without degradation of phase noise. Wide tunable LC-VCO using a variable inductor is one of the key circuits for reconfigurable RF circuit.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E88-A No.2 pp.507-512

Publication Date: 2005/02/01

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DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e88-a.2.507

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Yoshiaki YOSHIHARA, Hirotaka SUGAWARA, Hiroyuki ITO, Kenichi OKADA, Kazuya MASU, "Wide Tuning Range LC-VCO Using Variable Inductor for Reconfigurable RF Circuit" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals, vol. E88-A, no. 2, pp. 507-512, February 2005, doi: 10.1093/ietfec/e88-a.2.507.
Abstract: This paper presents a novel wide tuning range CMOS Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO). VCO uses an on-chip variable inductor as an additional variable element to extend the tuning range of VCO. The fabricated variable inductor achieves the variable range of 35%. The VCO was fabricated using 0.35 µm standard CMOS process, and can be tuned continuously from 2.13 GHz to 3.28 GHz (tuning range of 38%) without degradation of phase noise. Wide tunable LC-VCO using a variable inductor is one of the key circuits for reconfigurable RF circuit.
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