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Michael Mark, Jan Rabaey. "A 13.2 mW 1.9 GHz Interpolative BAW-based VCO for Miniaturized RF Frequency Synthesis". ISCAS - International Symposium on Circuits and Systems 2009, IEEE, 1441-1444, May, 2009.

Abstract
This paper presents a continuous frequency tuned Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) resonator based oscillator without varactors. The frequency of oscillation is derived by interpolating between the resonant frequencies of two different resonators. Changing the interpolation factors allows a continuous tuning of the oscillation frequency between these two resonant frequencies. A proof of concept circuit was implemented in 0.4 um CMOS and achieved a measured tuning range of more than 3 MHz with a phase noise between -134 and -109.5 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset while running at 3.3 V and consuming 4mA of current. Additionally, an extended version of this circuit utilizing a bank of resonators to enhance the tuning range while keeping the power constant is introduced.

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  Michael Mark, Jan Rabaey. <a
  href="http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/php/pubs/pubs.php/414.html">A
  13.2 mW 1.9 GHz Interpolative BAW-based VCO for Miniaturized
  RF Frequency Synthesis</a>, ISCAS - International
  Symposium on Circuits and Systems 2009, IEEE, 1441-1444,
  May, 2009.

• Plain text

  Michael Mark, Jan Rabaey. "A 13.2 mW 1.9 GHz Interpolative
  BAW-based VCO for Miniaturized RF Frequency Synthesis".
  ISCAS - International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
  2009, IEEE, 1441-1444, May, 2009.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{MarkRabaey2009,
      author = {Michael Mark and Jan Rabaey},
      title = {A 13.2 mW 1.9 GHz Interpolative BAW-based VCO for
                Miniaturized RF Frequency Synthesis},
      booktitle = {ISCAS - International Symposium on Circuits and
                Systems 2009},
      organization = {IEEE},
      pages = {1441-1444},
      month = {May},
      year = {2009},
      URL = {http:///php/pubs/pubs.php/414.html}
  }
  

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