A 3.22–5.45 GHz and 199 dBc/Hz FoMT CMOS Complementary Class-C DCO

Table 1

Comparison with the state of the art.

	[2]	[6]	[7]	[8]	This work
Technology	40 nm	65 nm	16 nm	65 nm	65 nm
Freq. (GHz)	5.11	6.8	3.6	2.2	5.054
FTR (%)	64.6	20	22	9.1	51.5
Power (mW)	8	1	0.6	1.5	3.4
(MHz)	1	3	10	3	3
PN@   (dBc/Hz)	−130	−116	−134	−117	−126
Frequency resolution (Hz)	29 K	116 K	1.3 K	-	120 K (wo SDM)/117 (wi SDM)
FoM^1 (dBc/Hz)	187	183	188	173	185.2
FoMT^2 (dBc/Hz)	203	189	195	172	199.4

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