30 GHz-voltage controlled oscillator operating at 4 K

A 2.4 GHz Voltage Controlled Oscillator

Voltage controlled oscillators are essential building blocks in communication systems and are used as local oscillators to up and down-convert signals in an RF mixer. Despite the continuous improvement in the state of the art of CMOS VCO’s, they still remain the most critical blocks of RF transceivers. The most important parameters of a VCO are phase noise, power consumption and frequency tunin...

10-GHz wide tuning-range linear voltage- controlled oscillator

Simulation analysis of 2.4 GHz MEMS/NEMS voltage controlled oscillator

This paper presents the design and analysis of a novel 2.4 GHz Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO), with amplitude control and Q enhancement circuit, for wireless communication applications. The variable capacitors and the inductors were designed using ANSYS and imported through DAC components in ADS (Advanced Design software). Accurate simulation of the VCO was performed in the software enviro...

LOW-POWER 2.4/5.15-GHz DUAL-BAND VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR

We proposed a 2.4/5.15 GHz dual-band voltagecontrolled oscillator which consists of a voltage-controlled oscillator and an injection-locked oscillator. Its upper and lower band frequencies are 4.48 5.86 GHz and 2.24 2.93 GHz, respectively. With the power consumption of 3.2 mW, their phase noises are 115 and 121 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset. VC 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 5...

INTEGRATED GHz VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATORS

The voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) is a critical sub-block in communications transceivers. The role of the VCO in a transceiver and the VCO requirements are first reviewed. The necessity of GHz VCOs and the driving factors towards the monolithic integration of the VCO are examined. VCO design techniques are outlined and design trade-offs are explored. The performance of VCOs in different i...