A Novel Quadrature-Tracking Demodulator for LTE-A Applications

Table 1

Performance Comparison of 2.4 GHz QVCOs.

	This work	[16]	[17]
Process	0.18 μm CMOS	0.18 μm CMOS	0.18 μm CMOS
Supply voltage (V)	1.4	0.6	1.8
Power dissipation (mW)	5.5	14.4	14.8
Frequency (GHz)	2.4	2.4	2.4
Fractional bandwidth (%)	17.5	9.5	26.3
Output power (dBm)	2	−10	0
Phase noise @1 MHz (dBc/Hz)	−113	−110~−104	−112
Quadrature error (Degree)	6.9	2.64	5
FoM @1 MHz	173.2	166.4	168.3