dc.contributor.advisor | Entesari, Kamran | |
dc.creator | Dhamani, Naushad | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-21T14:38:30Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-05-01T06:08:22Z | |
dc.date.created | 2017-05 | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-05-09 | |
dc.date.submitted | May 2017 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/161460 | |
dc.description.abstract | A Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) is a critical building block in the design of current frequency synthesizers for RF system applications. State-of-the-art operation defines that an oscillator should have the best spectral purity while consuming low amount of power for a wide tuning range.
With this in mind, this work presents a low phase noise wide tuning range ClassF VCO using a dual-mode resonator. In comparison to other conventional wideband oscillators, the proposed capacitively/inductively-coupled resonator will integrate the benefits of Class-F voltage control oscillators and dual-mode switching networks to obtain simultaneous low phase noise and wide-tuning range. The proposed structure, prototyped in 65nm TSMC CMOS technology, shows a 2.14 – 4.22GHz continuous tuning range, phase noise figure-of-merit (FoM) of 192.7dB at 2.3GHz and better than 188dB across the entire operating frequency range. The oscillator consumes 15-16.4mW from a 0.6V supply and occupies an active area of 0.7mm^2 . In conclusion, the proposed resonator achieves 2- 3dB phase noise improvement while achieving 65% overall tuning range when compared to a typical class-F VCO architecture. | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.subject | phase noise | en |
dc.subject | wide-tuning range | en |
dc.subject | VCO | en |
dc.subject | Dual-Mode resonator | en |
dc.subject | transformer | en |
dc.subject | multi-band | en |
dc.subject | CMOS | en |
dc.subject | wide-tuning range | en |
dc.subject | Class-F oscillator | en |
dc.title | A Low Phase Noise Wide-Tuning Range Class-F VCO Based on a Dual-Mode Resonator in 65nm CMOS | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
thesis.degree.department | Electrical and Computer Engineering | en |
thesis.degree.discipline | Electrical Engineering | en |
thesis.degree.grantor | Texas A & M University | en |
thesis.degree.name | Master of Science | en |
thesis.degree.level | Masters | en |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Palermo, Samuel | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Banerjee, Debjyoti | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Zou, Jun | |
dc.type.material | text | en |
dc.date.updated | 2017-08-21T14:38:30Z | |
local.embargo.terms | 2019-05-01 | |
local.etdauthor.orcid | 0000-0002-4579-2465 | |