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A wideband frequency synthesizer is designed and fabricated in a 0.18?μm CMOS technology. It is developed for DRM/DRM+/DAB systems and is based on a programmable integer-N phase-locked loop. Instead of using several synthesizers for different bands, only one synthesizer is used, which has three separated divider paths to provide quadrature 8-phase LO signals. A wideband VCO covers a frequency band from 2.0 to 2.9?GHz, generates LO signals from 32 to 72?MHz, and from 250 to 362?MHz. In cooperation with a programmable XTAL multi-divider at the PLL input and output dividers at the PLL output, the frequency step can be altered from 1 to 25?kHz. It provides an average output phase noise of ?0 dBc/Hz at 10?kHz offset, ?5 dBc/Hz at 100?kHz offset, and ?20 dBc/Hz at 1?MHz offset for all the supported channels. The output power of the LO signals is tunable from 0 dBm to +3 dBm, and the phase of quadrature signals can also be adjusted through a varactor in the output buffer. The power consumption of the frequency synthesizer is 45?mW from a 1.8?V supply.