CMOS low-gain wide-tuning-range fully integrated Ka-band millimeter wave quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator

Abstract

The invention discloses a CMOS low-gain wide-tuning-range fully integrated Ka-band millimeter wave quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator. A MOS variable capacitor tube array directly controlled by high and low levels is added into an oscillator resonant cavity to switch access capacitance so as to achieve multi-subband tuning for obtaining low-tuning gain, a wide regulating range, and good phase noise performance. In addition, a coplanar waveguide linear inductor used in the voltage-controlled oscillator has a high quality factor in order to achieve better phase noise performance. A circuit directly outputs a differential orthogonal signal with a high orthogonal precision (less than 1 degree). The phase noise of the voltage-controlled oscillator may reach -107.3dBc / Hz and -129.6dBc / Hz at the frequency offset 1MHz and 10MHz at the center frequency 30GHz, respectively. The voltage-controlled oscillator has total power consumption of 80mW, and can be used as a local oscillation signal source in a Ka-band wireless communication system or a voltage-controlled oscillator in a frequency synthesizer.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the technical field of millimeter-wave integrated circuit design, in particular to a fully integrated Ka-band millimeter-wave quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator with low gain and wide tuning range of complementary metal oxide semiconductors, which can be used in high-speed wireless communication systems with complex modulation. Background technique [0002] In recent years, with the rapid growth of demand for broadband services, especially broadband multimedia services, low-band wireless communication systems such as L-band (1-2GHz) or C-band (4-8GHz) have become saturated, and lower-band It cannot adapt to high-speed, large-bandwidth communication systems, which forces scholars at home and abroad to turn to research on wireless communication in the millimeter wave band (30-300GHz). [0003] The millimeter wave band has an extremely wide bandwidth, which is undoubtedly very attractive in today's tight frequency resources....

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Problems solved by technology

Samsung and South Korea's SK Telecom have previously completed the test of the fifth-generation (5G) mobile communication system based on 28GHz millimeter wave, but there is still a distance from the official commercial use of 5G mobile communication technology.

However, the substrate loss of the CMOS process is large, which brings challenges to the design of high-quality factor passive devices; and the cut-off frequency of active devices under the CMOS process is relatively low, and the high-performance Ka-band millimeter-wave voltage-controlled oscillation is realized based on the CMOS process. device is always a big problem

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