Abstract
This paper presents a study of 1/f2 phase noise in quadrature oscillators built by connecting two differential LC-tank oscillators in a parallel fashion. The analysis clearly demonstrates the necessity of adopting a time-variant theory of phase noise, where a more simplistic, time-invariant approach fails to explain numerical simulation results even at the qualitative level. Two topologies of 5-GHz parallel quadrature oscillators are considered, and compact but nevertheless highly general, closed-form formulas are derived for the phase noise caused by the losses in the LC-tanks and by the noisy currents in the MOS transistors. A large number of spectreRF simulations, covering a wide range of working conditions for the oscillators, is used to validate the theoretical analysis.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | I E E E Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part 1: Regular Papers |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1749-1760 |
| ISSN | 1549-8328 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2006 |
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- CMOS
- LC-tank
- oscillators
- phase noise
- quadrature