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temperature variation of accumulation MOS varactor
Feb 10th, 2007, 7:53am
 
Hi,
   I am building an LC VCO with a total cap of around 500fF in which the accumulation varactor used for tuning accounts for around 150fF. Right now, I am using a varactor model which doesn't incorporate variation due to temperature. Can the temperature sensitivity of the varactor be neglected or will it be large enough to affect the freq range?

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Arun
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Re: temperature variation of accumulation MOS vara
Reply #1 - Feb 12th, 2007, 2:23am
 
Arun,

You're right- usually the temp behaviour of caps are not modeled, in particular the varactor.
They just have the voltage gradient specified in ppm/V
In contrast, you've got the linear and quadratic tempco reported for a resistor.

What I did for a process was do a.c simulation with temp sweep and observed that tempco for mos-caps varies between +ve and -ve values.
For LC-VCO design, you're better off doing such a simulation, just with the varactor and also the whole oscillator to see how temperature's affecting it.

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Gau
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