On the selection of on-chip inductors for the optimal VCO design

Yong Zhan; Ramesh Harjani; Sachin S Sapatnekar

On the selection of on-chip inductors for the optimal VCO design

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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The selection of on-chip inductors is crucial to the design of low phase noise voltage controlled oscillators (VCO's). In this paper, we study the effect of substrate on the inductor selection criterion for the VCO circuit and resolve the long lasting argument among circuit designers about whether large or small inductors should be used to reduce the phase noise of VCO's. Several substrate types including CMOS, SOI, and substrates with patterned ground shields (PGS's) are compared, and we demonstrate that the substrate resistivity plays a key role in determining the selection criterion of the optimal on-chip inductors for VCO design.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	277-280
Number of pages	4
Journal	Proceedings of the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference
State	Published - 2004
Event	Proceedings of the IEEE 2004 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, CICC - Orlando, FL, United States Duration: Oct 3 2004 → Oct 6 2004

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