Periodic steady-state behaviour of cross-coupled LC-tank oscillator is of critical importance in ultra-low power, lowvoltage transceiver circuits. Understanding the major factors affecting amplitude, oscillation frequency and power consumption would lead to more optimised oscillator design particularly for short-range wireless transceivers. This study presents a new approach for evaluating the ...

Single LC oscillators are known for their good phase noise performance. In this paper we analyse the effect of cross-coupling two LC oscillators in order to provide quadrature outputs, which are mandatory in modern transceiver architectures. We present a theoretical study that shows that due to coupling a frequency shift exists and the oscillator quality factor is reduced, leading to a poorer p...

In this paper, an intuitive analysis of a phase noise reduction technique is done, and then a modified structure is proposed to achieve higher phase noise reduction than the original one. This method reduces the impact of noise sources on the phase noise by decreasing closed-loop gain in zero-crossings points and moving this high closed-loop gain to the non-zero-crossings points. This reduction...

The paper presents a method for design of LC cross-coupled oscillators based on open-loop technique and its practical application leading to a high frequency CMOS oscillator prototype. Thanks to the proposed approach, main circuit parameters as loaded quality factor (responsible for phase noise performance of LC oscillator) and steady-state oscillation amplitude can be extracted, without the ne...

This paper presents the design of a high efficiency, low THD, 5.7GHz fully differential power amplifier for wireless communications in a standard 0.18μm CMOS technology. The power amplifier employs a fully differential class-E topology to achieve high power efficiency by exploiting its soft-switching property. In order to achieve high operating frequency, an injectionlocked oscillator is utiliz...

This paper reports comparative analyses of phase noise in Hartley, Colpitts, and common-source cross-coupled differential pair LC oscillator topologies in 28 nm CMOS technology. The impulse sensitivity function is used to carry out both qualitative and quantitative analyses of the phase noise exhibited by each circuit component in each circuit topology with oscillation frequency ranging from 1 ...

An analysis of phase noise in differential crosscoupled inductance–capacitance (LC) oscillators is presented. The effect of tail current and tank power dissipation on the voltage amplitude is shown. Various noise sources in the complementary cross-coupled pair are identified, and their effect on phase noise is analyzed. The predictions are in good agreement with measurements over a large range ...

This paper describes the design and optimization of voltage controlled oscillators with quadrature outputs. Systematic design of fully integrated LC-VCOs with a high inductance tank leads to a cross-coupled double core LC-VCO as the optimal solution in terms of power consumption. Futhermore, a novel fully differential frequency tuning concept is introduced to ease high integration. The concepts...