A 1.2-V low-power full-band low-power UWB transmitter with integrated quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator and RF amplifier in 130nm CMOS technology

Abstract EN

This paper presents the design and simulation of a low-power full-band UWB transmitter with on-chip quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator (QVCO) in 130 nm CMOS technology.

the proposed transmitter consists of a passive poly-phase filter (PPF), QVCO, a quadrature modulator core and an RF power amplifier.

the QVCO uses the differential delay cell architecture with four cascaded stages.

the transmitter has the following specifications: a 15.28 dB average conversion gain with a ripple of ±1dB from 2 GHz to 11 GHz, the average input 1-dB compression point (IP1dB) is ‒10 dBm and the average output 1-dB compression point (OP1dB) is 4.35 dBm.

the QVCO achieves a wide frequency range (2-11 GHz) with a ‒80 dBc/Hz phase noise.

in addition, the supply voltage of the proposed transmitter is 1.2 V with power consumption of 77.8 mW.