This article proposes a quad-core millimeter-wave (mm-wave) voltage-controlled oscillator
(VCO) using a compact multi-mode magnetically coupled LC network. The network can be …

In this tutorial brief, we introduce a unified wideband phase-noise theory framework of
frequency synthesis based on a multirate timestamp modeling with “two-variables”. We …

This article presents a 4-to-5GHz LC oscillator operating at 4.2 K for quantum computing
applications. The phase noise (PN) specification of the oscillator is derived based on the …

In this article, we present a low phase noise (PN) mm-wave quadrature digitally controlled
oscillator (DCO) exploiting transformers for class-F operation and harmonic extraction. A …

The rapidly advancing field of millimeter-wave (mm-wave) radio-frequency integrated circuit
(RFIC) design has ushered in an era of remarkable innovation, particularly in the realm of on …

In this article, we propose a digital-to-time conversion technique operating entirely in the
sinusoidal waveform voltage domain of a crystal oscillator (XO) before the signal's final …

In this brief, the method of simultaneous frequency band and harmonic-mode switching is
proposed to maintain broadband low phase noise (PN) performance in transformer-based …

This work presents a K-band low flicker phase noise (1/f 3) corner voltage-controlled
oscillator (VCO) utilizing gate-drain phase shift. It incorporates two auxiliary LC tanks to shift …

The advanced wireless communication standards (eg, 5G) placed stringent specifications on
the RF/mm-wave transceivers. As a main contributor to the total error vector magnitude …