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VCO as a ubiquitous circuit in many systems is highly demanding for the phase noises. Lowering the noise migrated from the power supply has been the trending topics for many years. Considering the Ring Oscillator(RO) based VCO is more sensitive

VCO as a ubiquitous circuit in many systems is highly demanding for the phase noises. Lowering the noise migrated from the power supply has been the trending topics for many years. Considering the Ring Oscillator(RO) based VCO is more sensitive to the supply noise, it is more significant to find out a useful technique to reduce the supply noise. Among the conventional supply noise reduction techniques such as filtering, channel length adjusting for the transistors, and the current noise mutual canceling, the new feature of the 28nm UTBB-FD-SOI process launched by the ST semiconductor offered a new method to reduce the noise, which is realized by allowing the circuit designer to dynamically control the threshold voltage. In this thesis, a new structure of the linear coarse-fine VCO with 1V supply voltage is designed for the ring typed VCO. The structure is also designed to be flexible to tune the frequency coverage by the fine and coarse tunable on-board resistors. The thesis has given the model of the phase noise reduction method. The model has also been proved to be meaningful with the newly designed VCO circuit. For instances, given 1μV/√Hz white noise coupled on the supply, the 3GHz VCO can have a more than 7dBc/Hz phase noise lowering at the 10MHz frequency offset.


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  • Coarse-Fine VCO Design with a New Supply Noise Suppression Method
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2018
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    • Masters Thesis Electrical Engineering 2018

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