摘要： In this paper, an iterative method is proposed for the optimization of wideband voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs). The proposed method attempts to improve two significant performance metrics of wideband VCOs, i.e., the non-uniform band distribution and the non-constant tuning gain KVCO. To address these non-ideality issues, we introduce the deviation as a prior knowledge for calibration in each iteration step. The optimal capacitor array weighting plan can be asymptotically approached through multiple iterations. To demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method, we use it to implement a 1-to-2.4-GHz LC-VCO and achieve a frequency tuning range of 82.4%. The optimized LC-tank involves 64 mixed cells, and each cell contains 2-bit binary-weighted switching capacitors, leading to 256 tuning bands. The LC-VCO with the synthesized tank achieves uniform frequency steps around 5 MHz with the relative error within ±4.4%. Meanwhile, the tuning gain KVCO is around 10 MHz/V with the relative error within ±3.2%. For this LC-VCO design, each iteration step costs about 55.9 s. After 7 iterations, we approach the convergent solution where both the relative errors of the frequency steps and the tuning gains satisfy the given specifications.