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Abstract

A novel high-swing Class-C VCO with an amplitude feedback loop is presented. The amplitude feedback loop is used to ensure the start-up of the VCO which also makes the proposed VCO always have an optimal phase noise against the PVT variations automatically. The proposed circuit is implemented in a 65 nm CMOS process. The VCO has exhibited a measured phase noise of -128.6 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset from the 1.52 GHz carrier frequency with a 1.4 mW power consumption. The variation of measured phase noise at 1 MHz offset is less than 2.3% while temperature changes from -40˚C to 100˚C.

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Dr. Qi Liu

Dr. Ye-Bing Gan

Dr. Tian-Chun Ye