Configurable MCPW based inductor for mm-wave circuits and systems Conference

Liu, G, Berenguer, R, Akhiyat, A et al. (2010). Configurable MCPW based inductor for mm-wave circuits and systems . 1113-1116. 10.1109/ISCAS.2010.5537329

cited authors

  • Liu, G; Berenguer, R; Akhiyat, A; Kamtikar, K; Xu, Y

authors

abstract

  • High quality factor configurable inductors are critical components for robust multiband wireless applications. Configurable Multilayer Coplanar Wave Guide (MCPW) based inductors in nano-scale CMOS technologies are proposed in this paper for millimeter wave frequency applications. Inductors are tweaked by adjusting the transmission line length to compensate for process variations of the mm-wave circuits and cover multiple bands. For demonstration, a mm-wave Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) using the configurable inductor was designed and fabricated. Measurement reveals that the VCO covers frequency ranging from 72.8 to 77.6 GHz with phase noise of -109 dBc/Hz at 10 MHz offset, which is in good agreement with the MCPW-based inductor model prediction. ©2010 IEEE.

publication date

  • August 31, 2010

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

start page

  • 1113

end page

  • 1116