A low-phase-noise 900-MHz CMOS ring oscillator with quadrature output

A 900-MHz two-stage CMOS voltage controlled ring oscillator (VCRO) with quadrature output is presented. The circuit is designed in a 0.18-um CMOS technology and operated on a 1.8-V supply voltage. The VCRO have a tuning range of 730 MHz to 1.43 GHz and good tuning linearity. Between 0 V and 1.1 V of control voltage, the gain of VCRO is around −620 MHz/V. At 900 MHz, the phase noise of the VCRO is −106.1 dBc/Hz at 600-KHz frequency offset with power consumption of 65.5 mW.

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