23.4 A Filtering Technique to Lower Oscillator Phase Noise

Test oscillators are implemented using the noise filtering schemes described: a top-biased and a tail-biased VCO for the 1GHz band, and a tail-biased VCO for the 2.2GHz band. These CMOS circuits are fabricated in the STMicroelectronics BiCMOS 6M process.

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