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Design of a New LC VCO using Active Inductor

S. Taghizadeh1 , M. Taghizadeh2 , P. Taghizadeh3 , A. Kamaly4 , S.A. Emamghorashi5

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Volume-4 , Issue-12 , Page no. 27-30, Dec-2016

Online published on Jan 02, 2016

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IEEE Style Citation: S. Taghizadeh, M. Taghizadeh, P. Taghizadeh , A. Kamaly, S.A. Emamghorashi, “Design of a New LC VCO using Active Inductor,” International Journal of Computer Sciences and Engineering, Vol.4, Issue.12, pp.27-30, 2016.

MLA Style Citation: S. Taghizadeh, M. Taghizadeh, P. Taghizadeh , A. Kamaly, S.A. Emamghorashi "Design of a New LC VCO using Active Inductor." International Journal of Computer Sciences and Engineering 4.12 (2016): 27-30.

APA Style Citation: S. Taghizadeh, M. Taghizadeh, P. Taghizadeh , A. Kamaly, S.A. Emamghorashi, (2016). Design of a New LC VCO using Active Inductor. International Journal of Computer Sciences and Engineering, 4(12), 27-30.

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@article{Taghizadeh_2016,
author = {S. Taghizadeh, M. Taghizadeh, P. Taghizadeh , A. Kamaly, S.A. Emamghorashi},
title = {Design of a New LC VCO using Active Inductor},
journal = {International Journal of Computer Sciences and Engineering},
issue_date = {12 2016},
volume = {4},
Issue = {12},
month = {12},
year = {2016},
issn = {2347-2693},
pages = {27-30},
url = {https://www.ijcseonline.org/full_paper_view.php?paper_id=1127},
publisher = {IJCSE, Indore, INDIA},
}

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TY - JOUR
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TI - Design of a New LC VCO using Active Inductor
T2 - International Journal of Computer Sciences and Engineering
AU - S. Taghizadeh, M. Taghizadeh, P. Taghizadeh , A. Kamaly, S.A. Emamghorashi
PY - 2016
DA - 2017/01/02
PB - IJCSE, Indore, INDIA
SP - 27-30
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Abstract

In this paper, a novel differential LC voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) is presented. The VCO is based on the gm-boosted structure to relax the oscillation start-up current requirement and reduce the DC power consumption in comparison to conventional Colpitts structures. In the proposed VCO, a tunable active inductor is utilized as a part of LC tank instead of passive inductor with constant inductance. The proposed VCO is designed and simulated in ADS in a 0.18μm CMOS process. Simulation results indicate that the proposed VCO has a wide tuning range in comparison to other reported designs while consumes less DC power.

Key-Words / Index Term

VCO, Ring, Phase noise, Frequency range

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