Oscillator flicker phase noise: A tutorial

Y Hu, T Siriburanon… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A deep understanding of how to reduce flicker phase noise (PN) in oscillators is critical in
supporting ultra-low PN frequency generation for the advanced communications and other …

A Low-Flicker-Noise 30-GHz Class-F23 Oscillator in 28-nm CMOS Using Implicit Resonance and Explicit Common-Mode Return Path

Y Hu, T Siriburanon… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a millimeter-wave (mmW) frequency generation stage aimed at
minimizing phase noise (PN) via waveform shaping and harmonic extraction while …

A 27-GHz quad-core CMOS oscillator with no mode ambiguity

D Murphy, H Darabi - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There is a lower bound on the size of a planar inductor below which significant Q-
degradation occurs. While this bound can limit the absolute performance of an LC oscillator …

A 0.083-mm2 25.2-to-29.5 GHz Multi-LC-Tank Class-F234 VCO With a 189.6-dBc/Hz FOM

H Guo, Y Chen, PI Mak… - IEEE Solid-State Circuits …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A compact multi-LC-tank Class-F 234 voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) for mm-wave
applications is reported. It features an inductive multiplier inside the positive feedback loop …

A harmonic-mixing PLL architecture for millimeter-wave application

D Yang, D Murphy, H Darabi, A Behzad… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A low-noise synthesizer design in the millimeter-wave (mm-wave) range is complicated by
the invariably large closed-loop gain and the high operation frequency of the voltage …

Low 1/f3 Noise Corner LC-VCO Design Using Flicker Noise Filtering Technique in 22nm FD-SOI

Z Zong, G Mangraviti… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a K/Ka-band voltage biased differential LC-VCO in 22nm FD-SOI
achieving a 1/f 3 corner below 18 kHz and a figure-of-merit (FOM) at 1 MHz offset frequency …

Flicker phase-noise reduction using gate–drain phase shift in transformer-based oscillators

X Chen, Y Hu, T Siriburanon, J Du… - … on Circuits and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a wide-band suppression technique of flicker phase noise (PN) by
means of a gate–drain phase shift in a transformer-based complementary oscillator. We …

A O.094-mm225–29 GHz Low Power VCO

SK Khyalia, A Batabyal, R Zele… - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a low power mmWave Class-F_234 voltage controlled oscillator (VCO)
with a multi resonant Inductor-Capacitor (LC) tank. The proposed VCO designed in 40 nm …

Flicker noise upconversion and reduction mechanisms in RF/millimeter-wave oscillators for 5G communications

Y Hu - 2019 - researchrepository.ucd.ie
The fifth generation (5G) cellular communications in millimeter-wave (mmW) bands (eg,
28GHz) place very tough requirements on phase noise (PN) of local oscillators (LO) …

A 4 GHz FLL-less fast-locking sampling PLL with gain-boosted sampling phase-frequency detector in 28 nm CMOS

C Yang, S Wang, X Liu, J Jin, J Zhou - Microelectronics Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a sampling PLL (SPLL) using a gain-boosted sampling phase-
frequency detector (SPFD) to suppress in-band phase noise. The implementation of the …