A comparative study of ring VCO and LC-VCO: Design, performance analysis, and future trends

NR Sivaraaj, KKA Majeed - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Voltage-controlled Oscillator (VCO) is a prominent part that has been used to generate a
stable frequency for the high-frequency transceiver system. This survey encompasses a …

Low‐power three‐path inductor class‐C VCO without any dynamic bias circuit

SL Jang, YC Lin - Electronics Letters, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A 2.48 GHz class‐C voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) without any dynamic back bias
circuit is presented. The VCO uses three‐path high Q‐factor inductor as the low loss …

Low‐phase noise Class‐C VCO with dynamic body bias

SL Jang, JJ Wang - Electronics Letters, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A 2.5 GHz Class‐C voltage‐controlled oscillator (VCO) with dynamic back‐gate‐biased
MOSFET is proposed. A dynamic gate biasing circuit is used to reduce power consumption …

A PVT-Insensitive Optimal Phase Noise Point Tracking Bias Calibration in Class-C VCO

G Jung, S Seong, M Lee - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a Class-C voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) with bias voltage
calibration that automatically finds the low-phase noise point and achieves robust start-up …

Low power class-C VCO using dynamic body biasing

WC Lai, SL Jang, BS Shih, YJ Su - 2017 6th International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a 3 GHz class-C VCO with dynamic body-biased MOSFET. The
dynamic biasing circuit is used to reduce power consumption by switching NMOS from initial …

A 92 fsrms jitter frequency synthesizer based on a multicore class-C voltage-controlled oscillator with digital automatic amplitude control

J Chen, H Li, T Wang, Z Wang, H Chen… - IEICE Electronics …, 2021 - jstage.jst.go.jp
This letter presents a frequency synthesizer based on a multicore Class-C voltage-controlled
oscillator (VCO) with a digital automatic amplitude control (AAC) loop. A novel digital tail …

A 1.4-2.3 GHz low-noise, low-power LC-VCO with automatic amplitude control using digitally-tuned resistor array

P Tang, S He, W Zou - 2021 9th International Symposium on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a new automatic amplitude control (AAC) scheme for the design of low-noise,
low power LC-VCO is presented. Instead of using a traditional current source, a digitally …

A Low-Power Quadrature LC-Oscillator Using Core-and-Coupling Current-Reuse

D Kumar, H Shrimali, N Nallam - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a low-power quadrature LC-oscillator using the current-reuse technique is
presented. In the proposed topology, both the core-and-coupling currents are reused to …

A 5-8 GHz Wideband and Low Phase Noise Cross-Coupled LC VCO Using 6-bit DCCA in 40nm CMOS Process

Y Jiang, C Shen, T Wu, H Chen, S Ma… - 2022 IEEE 16th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a broadband and low phase noise LC voltage-controlled oscillator
(VCO) implemented in SMIC 40nm CMOS process. The VCO uses 6-bit digitally-controlled …

A 1.65 mW 2.8 GHz Dual-Loops Class-C VCO Achieving 189 dBc/Hz FoM

Q Yu, C Wang, Z Yuan, X Liu, P Wan… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A complementary Class-C VCO is presented in this paper in 65 nm CMOS process. Dual
feedback loops and current-reuse technology are utilized to further power reduction. Multiple …