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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering Volume 2011, Article ID 361910, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2011/361910 Research Article A Tunable Wideband Frequency Synthesizer Using LC-VCO and Mixer for Reconfigurable Radio Transceivers Yusaku Ito,1 Kenichi Okada,2 and Kazuya Masu1 1 ICE Cube Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 226-8503, Japan 2 Department of Physical Electronics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan Correspondence should be addressed to Kenichi Okada, okada@ssc.pe.titech.ac.jp Received 2 May 2011; Accepted 6 June 2011 Academic Editor: Antonio Liscidini Copyright © 2011 Yusaku Ito et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This paper proposes a novel wideband LC-based voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) for multistandard transceivers. The proposed VCO has a core LC-VCO and a tuning-range extension circuit, which consists of switches, a mixer, dividers, and variable gain combiners with a spurious rejection technique. The experimental results exhibit 0.98 to 6.6 GHz continuous frequency tuning with −206 dBc/Hz of FoM , which is fabricated by using a 0.18 µm CMOS process. The frequency tuning range (FTR) is 149%, T and the chip area is 800 µm × 540 µm. 1. Introduction frequency tuning range. Thus, LC-based VCOs are required for the application due to the phase noise requirement. Recently, dozens of wireless communication standards have However, the tuning range