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The effects of resonator topology on the phase noise of LC oscillators are studied in this paper. It is shown that there is a neglected factor that can considerably influence the phase noise behavior of the oscillator. We designate this factor as the Inductance Energy Factor (IEF), which directly depends on the topology of the resonator. It is shown that through proper design of the resonator for a better IEF, the oscillator phase noise can be improved. It is also shown that by modifying the resonator structure to improve IEF, the phase noise does not have to be constrained by the minimum realizable inductance and its maximum quality factor. Therefore, the power-phase noise trade-off remains... 

On-chip accurate clock references are one of the essential building blocks in fully integrated Systems-On-Chips (SOC). In this paper, a low phase noise, temperature and supply voltage independent clock reference is presented. It provides the reference frequency for a biomedical implantable system. The simulated phase noise at 100 KHz offset from 2MHz carrier is 113dBc/Hz. Simulations show the frequency remains within 0.34% of the nominal oscillation frequency in the operating voltage range of 1.7 - 1.9 V without any calibration and its change in the temperature range of 20-to100C is 0.5%. The circuit consumes 77W and is designed in a 0.18m technology with 1.8V supply voltage  

In this paper we introduce a new low phase noise cascode Cross-coupled oscillator by use of the general topology of Cross-coupled oscillator and cascode amplifier. By simulation a comparison between the conventional Cross-coupled oscillator and the new cascode Cross-coupled oscillator is also presented, which shows that the latter improves the phase noise by 2dB under the same conditions. The figure of merit (FOM) of -186.4 dBc/Hz is achieved for the new oscillator by simulation  

This paper presents a low voltage low noise open loop automatic amplitude control method for voltage-controlled oscillators (VCO's). In this method a feedback mechanism keeps the VCO at its optimum amplitude over temperature and process variations and then the loop is broken to avoid noise injection form the control circuitry to the VCO. The loop does not add extra noise to the VCO. Based on the proposed method, a low voltage low noise LC-VCO was designed for a low phase noise application in TSMC 0.18 micron RFCMOS technology. Simulations show considerable improvement in the phase noise with the application of the proposed method  

In this paper, a modified method based on the frequency discriminator technique for measuring phase noise of microwave oscillators is presented. In the proposed method, the phase shifter is omitted. In contrast, a 90° hybrid with one more channel containing a phase detector, and a low-noise amplifier is added to the measurement setup. It can be said that an in-phase/quadrature phase-noise detection has been developed. With the proposed method, tuning of the variable phase shifter is not needed anymore. Therefore, the measurement is done automatically, and as a result, the measurement time is decreased. Another considerable advantage of this method is that the method is theoretically... 

This paper presents a phase-noise reduction technique for voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs) using a harmonic tuned (HT) LC tank. The phase-noise suppression is achieved through almost rectangular-shaped VCO oscillating signal which effectively maximizes oscillating signal slope at zero crossing points resulting in-phase-noise degradation. In addition, by shortening down converted noise power around oscillating signal second harmonic, more phase-noise suppression has been achieved. A comprehensive analysis for frequency and amplitude deviations as high as 20% for third harmonic and its effect on output phase-noise suppression has been discussed. In the followings, a comprehensive analysis...