State-of-the-art VCO design

• Main Author: Gao, Yuan.
• Other Authors: Boon Chirn Chye
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44932
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The designs of Voltage Controlled Oscillators (VCO) are explored in this project in a standard RF 65nm CMOS technology. Four different VCOs (A, B, C and D) are designed and compared to discuss the advantages of PMOS transistors and capacitive cross-coupled feedback. With the contract of NMOS, the...