A 52-66GHz Subharmonically Injection-Locked Quadrature Oscillator with 10GHz Locking Range in 40nm LP CMOS
 
A 52-66GHz Subharmonically Injection-Locked Quadrature Oscillator with 10GHz Locking Range in 40nm LP CMOS 
 
Giovanni Mangraviti, Giovanni Mangraviti, Bertrand Parvais, Bertrand Parvais, Vojkan Vidojkovic, Vojkan Vidojkovic, Kristof Vaesen, Kristof Vaesen, Viki Szortyka, Viki Szortyka, Khaled Khalaf, Khaled Khalaf, Charlotte Soens, Charlotte Soens, Gerd Vandersteen, Gerd Vandersteen, Piet Wambacq, Piet Wambacq
 
Abstract 

A mm-wave subharmonically injection-locked quadrature oscillator is demonstrated in a 40nm low-power (LP) digital CMOS technology. A large locking range (10GHz), tunable over the 52-66GHz band, is achieved using transformer-coupled resonators. A simple calibration scheme is proposed that only relies on a relative power measurement of the oscillator output signal. The wide locking range, the wide tunability and the simple calibration scheme make this injection-locked quadrature oscillator design suitable for frequency synthesis in mm-wave CMOS communication systems.