부산대학교 도서관

We present a 4.4-mm$^{2}$ single-chip synthesized signal source with 125 MHz to 32 GHz continuous frequency coverage with a minimum frequency step smaller than 10 Hz. The chip is fabricated in a 0.18-μm SiGe BiCMOS 1P6M technology. A core fractional-N synthesizer using a 20-MHz reference frequency has four LC-VCOs and a 4- to 8-GHz synthesizable range. Post-synthesis blocks extend the frequency coverage up to 32 GHz and down to 125 MHz through frequency multiplication and division. In different operation modes, the chip, including a balanced 50-ohm load driver, consumes from 284 to 498 mW. The phase noise performance achieves $-$117.6 dBc/Hz at 1-MHz offset from a 6-GHz output frequency and $-$83 dBc/Hz in-band noise. The integrated phase noise is $-$ 28 dBc and the absolute jitter is 1.05 ps$_{\rm RMS}$ at 6-GHz output. The jitter is maintained nearly constant (between 0.9 and 1.2 ps$_{\rm RMS}$) across the whole output frequency range.