A 0.56-2.92 GHz Wideband and Low Phase Noise Quadrature LO-Generator Using a Single LC-VCO for 2G-4G Multistandard Cellular Transceivers

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A wideband and low phase noise quadrature local oscillation (LO) signal generator for multistandard cellular transceivers was proposed. Using the new LO-plan consisting of divide-by-6, divide-by-4, and divide-by-12 frequency dividers, the required frequency-tuning range (FTR) of a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) was reduced to 39%, which can be easily covered by a single LC-VCO. Due to the reduced FTR, the VCO can retain a high Q-factor and achieve low phase noise. The key building block of the new LO-plan is a quadrature divide-by-6 divider, capable of generating precise I/Q signals. To implement the quadrature divide-by-6 divider, we proposed a fully differential divide-by-3 divider with 50% duty cycle. Using the same idea, a fully differential divide-by-2 circuit was also proposed for divide-by-4 and divide-by-12 dividers. The proposed LO-generator was fabricated in a 40 nm CMOS process, and covered LO-frequencies of 0.56-2.92 GHz for multistandard cellular transceivers. The LO-generator occupied a small silicon area of 0.15 mm(2) and achieved an excellent phase noise performance of -141.02 dBc/Hz at a 1 MHz offset from a 709 MHz LO-frequency.
Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
Issue Date
2016-03
Language
English
Article Type
Article
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IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS, v.51, no.3, pp.614 - 625

ISSN
0018-9200
DOI
10.1109/JSSC.2015.2510019
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http://hdl.handle.net/10203/264102
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