Skip to main content

Lund University Publications

LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

An ultra low voltage, low power, fully integrated VCO for GPS in 90 nm RF-CMOS

Aspemyr, Lars LU and Linten, D (2006) In Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing 46(1). p.57-63
Abstract
A fully integrated 0.6 V VCO for the GPS L1 band is realized in a 90 nm RF-CMOS process. The purpose of the design is to demonstrate how suitable deep submicron CMOS transistors are for ultra low voltage, low power oscillator design. The VCO operates at 6.3 GHz and a divide-by-four circuit buffer provide the wanted 1575.42 MHz signal. Measured phase noise is for a 0.6 V supply voltage and bias current of 2.6 mA - 122 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset, measured for a 1.58 GHz carrier. The phase noise of the VCO has been measured for different bias point showing good agreement between measured results and theory.
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
author
and
organization
publishing date
type
Contribution to journal
publication status
published
subject
keywords
VCO, 90 nm, RF-CMOS, low voltage, GPS, low-power, frequency divider
in
Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
volume
46
issue
1
pages
57 - 63
publisher
Springer
external identifiers
  • wos:000233567000007
  • scopus:29144494141
ISSN
0925-1030
DOI
10.1007/s10470-005-4077-5
language
English
LU publication?
yes
id
afec884f-ec21-4d47-9b48-48ca4a0c47b3 (old id 693897)
date added to LUP
2016-04-01 16:16:52
date last changed
2022-03-07 04:49:58
@article{afec884f-ec21-4d47-9b48-48ca4a0c47b3,
  abstract     = {{A fully integrated 0.6 V VCO for the GPS L1 band is realized in a 90 nm RF-CMOS process. The purpose of the design is to demonstrate how suitable deep submicron CMOS transistors are for ultra low voltage, low power oscillator design. The VCO operates at 6.3 GHz and a divide-by-four circuit buffer provide the wanted 1575.42 MHz signal. Measured phase noise is for a 0.6 V supply voltage and bias current of 2.6 mA - 122 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset, measured for a 1.58 GHz carrier. The phase noise of the VCO has been measured for different bias point showing good agreement between measured results and theory.}},
  author       = {{Aspemyr, Lars and Linten, D}},
  issn         = {{0925-1030}},
  keywords     = {{VCO; 90 nm; RF-CMOS; low voltage; GPS; low-power; frequency divider}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{1}},
  pages        = {{57--63}},
  publisher    = {{Springer}},
  series       = {{Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing}},
  title        = {{An ultra low voltage, low power, fully integrated VCO for GPS in 90 nm RF-CMOS}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10470-005-4077-5}},
  doi          = {{10.1007/s10470-005-4077-5}},
  volume       = {{46}},
  year         = {{2006}},
}