A 16 nm FinFet power- and phase noise-scalable DCO using on-chip tapped inductor

Ehrentraud Hager; Svetozar Broussev; Harald Pretl

A 16 nm FinFet power- and phase noise-scalable DCO using on-chip tapped inductor

Ehrentraud Hager, Svetozar Broussev, Harald Pretl

Department of Energy-Efficient Analog Circuits

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Abstract

In this paper a Digitally-Controlled Oscillator (DCO) with configurable power consumption and phase-noise is presented. The DCO provides two different power/phasenoise modes while maintaining an almost constant figure-of-merit (FoM) by using a tapped inductor in the LC tank. For each mode (low-power and low-noise mode) a different DCO core is selected, which either connects to the outer taps of the tank inductor or to the inner ones. The presented design achieves a tuning range of 25.9% with a center frequency of 4.88 GHz at a FoM of approximately 185 dBc/Hz. The DCO concept is simulated in a 16 nm FinFET CMOS process.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of Austrian Workshop on Microelectronics (Austrochip 2019)
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - 2019

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102 Computer Sciences
202 Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Information Engineering

Christian Doppler Laboratory for Digitally Assisted RF Transceivers for Future Mobile Communications
Auer, C. (Researcher), Buckel, T. (Researcher), Gebhard, A. (Researcher), Hager, E. (Researcher), Hamidovic, D. (Researcher), Hofstadler, M. (Researcher), Markovic, J. (Researcher), Motz, C. (Researcher), Nyamangoudar, R. (Researcher), Paireder, T. (Researcher), Ploder, O. (Researcher), Preissl, C. (Researcher), Pretl, H. (Researcher), Preyler, P. (Researcher), Pühringer, B. (Researcher), Huemer, M. (PI) & Springer, A. (PI)
01.01.2017 → 31.12.2024
Project: Funded research › Other sponsors

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