Passos, F.Castro Lópes, R.Roca, E.Fernándes, F.Martins, R.Lourenço, N.Póvoa, R.Canelas, A.Horta, N.2025-02-182025-02-182017F. Passos et al., "Systematic design of a voltage controlled oscillator using a layout-aware approach," 2017 14th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD), Giardini Naxos, Italy, 2017, pp. 1-4http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/54465This paper focuses on the systematic design of voltage controlled oscillators (VCO), a commonly used radiofrequency (RF) electronic circuit. RF circuits are among the most difficult analog circuits to design due to its trade-offs and high operation frequencies. At such operation frequencies, layout parasitics and accurate passive component characterization become of upmost importance, causing re-design iterations if they are not considered by the designer. To avoid this problem, and reduce the design time, this paper presents a systematic design of a VCO, entailing layout parasitics and accurate characterization of passive components from early design stages. Results clearly illustrate the benefit of this strategy.engconference object10.1109/SMACD.2017.7981580