Ultra Wide-Band Inductive Peaking VCO with Cascode Noise Reduction

Fanfan Meng; Ke Li; Dave J. Thomson; Cosimo Lacava; Peter Wilson; Graham T. Reed

doi:10.1109/ISCAS.2018.8350973

Ultra Wide-Band Inductive Peaking VCO with Cascode Noise Reduction

Fanfan Meng, Ke Li, Dave J. Thomson, Cosimo Lacava, Peter Wilson, Graham T. Reed

Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

A ring-based inductive peaking VCO with a novel noise reduction technique is reported in this paper. An extra cascode transistor is used to bias the switching transistor into the deep triode region where the noise performance is better than that in the saturation region. A differential structure with a full custom symmetrical inductor demonstrates the benefits of the concept. The highest operational frequency reached was 39GHz with a tuning range of more than 4 octaves. The figure of merit (≈189) indicates that better overall combination of frequency and phase noise is obtained when compared with previous work.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2018
Publisher	IEEE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538648810
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS.2018.8350973
Publication status	Published - 26 Apr 2018
Event	2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2018 - Florence, Italy Duration: 27 May 2018 → 30 May 2018

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Conference	2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2018
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Florence
Period	27/05/18 → 30/05/18

Keywords

cascode noise reduction
inductive peaking
Ring-based VCO
symmetrical inductor

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Meng, F, Li, K, Thomson, DJ, Lacava, C, Wilson, P & Reed, GT 2018, Ultra Wide-Band Inductive Peaking VCO with Cascode Noise Reduction. in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2018., 8350973, IEEE, 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2018, Florence, Italy, 27/05/18. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS.2018.8350973

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