A 1.8-V 6/9-GHz reconfigurable dual-band quadrature LC VCO in SiGe BiCMOS technology

This paper presents a dual-band voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) that can be reconfigured between 6- and 9-GHz frequency bands. It comprises a 6-GHz LC-tuned VCO, two 1/2 dividers, two mixers, and two 3-GHz notch filters. The 9-GHz output is generated based on the analog frequency multiplication method by mixing the 6-GHz VCO output with its divide-by-two signal. The VCO, implemented in a 0.18-/spl mu/m SiGe BiCMOS technology, achieves a fast reconfiguration time of 3.6 ns. The measured VCO phase noises are -106 and -104 dBc/Hz at 1-MHz offset for 6- and 9-GHz modes, respectively, while draining 10.8 mA from a 1.8-V supply.

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