@User The VCO phase noise will depend a lot on the power supply noise too. If nobody happens to design a quiet (e.g. <20nV/rt-Hz) LDO, then you might be best off using an external regulator, at least as an optional mode. The decoupling capacitor will want to be external in either case.
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