A 1.5 V 3.1 GHz-8 GHz CMOS Synthesizer for 9-Band MB-OFDM UWB Transceivers

This paper presents the design of a CMOS synthesizer for dual-conversion zero-IF2 Multi-Band OFDM (MB-OFDM) transceivers covering the first 9 frequency bands from 3.1GHz to 8.0GHz, each with a bandwidth of 528 MHz. A wideband single-sideband mixer with wideband inductive network loading is proposed. Moreover, a modified transformer-coupled quadrature VCO and interconnection-loading-insensitive layout technique are employed. Fabricated in TSMC 0.18-mum CMOS process and operated at 1.5V, the synthesizer measures phase noise of -127.4dBc/Hz at 10MHz offset, integrated phase noise of 4.43deg, sideband suppression of better than -22 dBc, and a switching time of less than 1ns while consuming 59 mA