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Article Dans Une Revue AEÜ - International Journal of Electronics and Communications / Archiv für Elektronik und Übertragungstechnik Année : 2010

Minimum Phase noise of an LC oscillator: Determination of the optimal operating point of the active part

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In this paper, we describe an original method for determining the optimal operating point of the active part (transistor) of an LC oscillator leading to the minimum phase noise for given specifications in terms of power consumption, oscillation frequency and forgiven devices (i.e.,transistor and resonator). The key point of the proposed method is based on the use of a proper LC oscillator architecture providing a fixed loaded quality factor for different operating points of the active part within the oscillator. The feedback network of this architecture is made of an LC resonator with coupling transformers. In these conditions, we show that it is possible to easily change the operating point of the amplifier, through the determination of the turns ratio of those transformers, and observe its effect on phase noise without modifying the loaded quality factor of the resonator. The optimal operating point for minimum phase noise is then extracted from nonlinear simulations. Once this optimal behavior of the active part is known and by associating the previous LC resonator, a design of an LC oscillator or VCO with an optimal phase noise becomes possible. The conclusions of the presented simulation results have been widely used to design and implement a fully integrated LC differential VCO on a 0.35µm BiCMOS SiGe process.

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hal-00683320 , version 1 (28-03-2012)

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David Cordeau, Jean-Marie Paillot. Minimum Phase noise of an LC oscillator: Determination of the optimal operating point of the active part. AEÜ - International Journal of Electronics and Communications / Archiv für Elektronik und Übertragungstechnik, 2010, 64 (9), pp.795-805. ⟨10.1016/j.aeue.2009.06.005⟩. ⟨hal-00683320⟩
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