1∼3 GHz VCO with rail-to-rail VCONT range

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Abstract

This paper presents a 1∼3 GHz voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) with a rail-to-rail VCO tuning voltage (VCONT) range. To obtain wide and linear VCONT range, a new differential amplifier with a rail-to-rail common mode input range and an unstacked output stage is proposed. By using the proposed differential amplifier in the analog fine tuning block, VCONT can span almost the rail-to-rail supply voltage with good linearity. For verification, a prototype VCO was fabricated in a 65 nm 1P7M CMOS process.

Original languageEnglish
Article number20160373
JournalIEICE Electronics Express
Volume13
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 Jun 2016

Keywords

  • Common mode input range
  • Differential amplifier
  • Voltage controlled oscillator

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