Print Email Facebook Twitter An Ultra-Low Phase Noise Class-F 2 CMOS Oscillator With 191 dBc/Hz FoM and Long-Term Reliability Title An Ultra-Low Phase Noise Class-F 2 CMOS Oscillator With 191 dBc/Hz FoM and Long-Term Reliability Author Babaie, M. Staszewski, R.B. Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Microelectronics Date 2015-01-12 Abstract In this paper, we propose a new class of operation of an RF oscillator that minimizes its phase noise. The main idea is to enforce a clipped voltage waveform around the LC tank by increasing the second-harmonic of fundamental oscillation voltage through an additional impedance peak, thus giving rise to a class-F 2 operation. As a result, the noise contribution of the tail current transistor on the total phase noise can be significantly decreased without sacrificing the oscillator's voltage and current efficiencies. Furthermore, its special impulse sensitivity function (ISF) reduces the phase sensitivity to thermal circuit noise. The prototype of the class-F 2 oscillator is implemented in standard TSMC 65 nm CMOS occupying 0.2 mm 2 . It draws 32–38 mA from 1.3 V supply. Its tuning range is 19% covering 7.2–8.8 GHz. It exhibits phase noise of -\hbox {139 dBc/Hz} at 3 MHz offset from 8.7 GHz carrier, translated to an average figure-of-merit of 191 dBc/Hz with less than 2 dB variation across the tuning range. The long term reliability is also investigated with estimated >10 year lifetime. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:954919b2-273e-4be0-8160-1e376cfb7408 DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2014.2379265 Publisher IEEE ISSN 0018-9200 Source IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 50 (3), 2015 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2014 IEEE Files PDF Babaie_2015.pdf 3.61 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:954919b2-273e-4be0-8160-1e376cfb7408/datastream/OBJ/view