A 60GHz VCO with 25.8% tuning range by switching return-path in 65nm CMOS

• Main Authors: Fei, Wei, Yu, Hao, Yeo, Kiat Seng, Lim, Wei Meng
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Electronic circuits
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101171; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18292
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper presents a novel inductive tuning method for 60GHz voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) design. A new inductor-loaded transformer is proposed by configuring different current return-paths in the secondary coil of a transformer. Different from published inductive tuning methods, the propose...