A semiconductor circuit for reducing flicker noise includes a
negative-conductance generator and a body bias voltage supplying circuit.
The negative-conductance generator includes a pair of cross-coupled field
effect transistors in order to generate negative-conductance, wherein
each field effect transistor includes a body. In order to remove flicker
noise generated by the pair of the field effect transistors, the body
bias voltage supplying circuit supplies a body bias voltage to the body
of each of the pair of the field effect transistors so that a forward
bias voltage is supplied to the body and source of each of the pair of
the field effect transistors. The field effect transistors are preferably
NMOS transistors or CMOS transistors. The semiconductor circuit is used
in a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) or a phase-locked loop (PLL).