Design And Investigation Of 65 Nm Rf Cmos Technology Lc-Vco’s

Abstract

In this paper, two LC Voltage-Controlled Oscillators (LC-LC-VCO1 and LC-VCO2) are designed using TSMC 65 nm LP/MS/RF CMOS technology. Two arrays, one of which is a 6-bit capacitor array and the other – an array of MOS varactors, provide a wide LC-VCO frequency tuning range. Post-layout simulation results unveiled that at 1.8 V supply voltage the tuning range of LC-VCO1 spans from 5.17 GHz to 6.76 GHz and for LC-VCO2 the range spans from 6.33 GHz to 8.08 GHz. The phase noise at 1 MHz offset frequency is about −123.1 dBc/Hz for LC-VCO1 and −121.6 dBc/Hz for LC-VCO2. The power dissipation at maximum carrier is 30.47 mW for LC-VCO1 and 30.5 mW for LC-VCO2. The layout area is 285×335 μm and 255×305 μm, respectively for LC-VCO1 and LC-VCO2.

Keywords

• voltage controlled oscillator, transceiver, varactor, inductor, layout, integrated circuit.