6-to-13 GHz Voltage Controlled Oscillator with 7 dBm Output Power in 22 nm FD-SOI

A voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) is presented with 6 to 13 GHz tuning range, split into two bands for application in baseband signal processing, multi-leafed or fractional clock-data-recovery architectures. The 22nm FD-SOI is used for the implementation. Cross-coupled p- and the nMOS pairs are used for the oscillator, with the advantages of this circuit detailed. To achieve the high tuning ra...