An eight-phase CMOS voltage controlled oscillator.

This article presents an eight-phase low phase noise CMOS voltage controlled oscillator (VCO). The low noise CMOS VCO has been implemented with the TSMC 0.18 μm 1P6M CMOS technology and adopts two quadrature cross-coupled nMOS-core VCOs injection-locked through the second-harmonic. The VCO operates from 5.1 GHz to 5.5 GHz with 7.54% tuning range. The measured phase noise at 1 MHz offset from 5.1 GHz is about -115.4 dBc/Hz. The power consumption of the VCO core is 7.43 mW at the supply voltage of 1 V. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 51: 1225–1228, 2009; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.24270 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]