A Low Phase Noise VCO in eWLB Package

Florian Starzer; Alexander Fischer; Herbert Knapp; M. Wojnowski; Linus Maurer; Andreas Stelzer

A Low Phase Noise VCO in eWLB Package

Florian Starzer
, Alexander Fischer
, Herbert Knapp
, M. Wojnowski
, Linus Maurer
, Andreas Stelzer

Department of RF-Systems

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Abstract

A chip-package co-design for a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) designed in a 200-GHz SiGe:C technology is presented. The VCO is frequency-adjustable using a package defined inductor. An overall bandwidth of 21% supports the frequency bands for three different radar applications with a single silicon device. The VCO is accompanied by a buffer, a down-converter mixer (D-Cm) as well as a prescaler. The VCO is assembled in an embedded wafer level ball grid array (eWLB) package with its inductor in the packages fan-in area. It obtains a center frequency as high as 18 GHz and achieves phase noise (PN) values of −92 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz offset frequency and an overall bandwidth of 21.7%.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Electronics Packaging Technology Conference (EPTC), 2012 IEEE 14th
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - Dec 2012

Fields of science

202019 High frequency engineering
202037 Signal processing
202023 Integrated circuits
202029 Microwave engineering
202033 Radar technology

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Mechatronics and Information Processing

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