Large Signal Design of Broad-Band Monolithic Microwave Frequency Dividers and Phase-Locked Oscillators

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 1993, Pages 1928-1938

  Quéré, Raymond ^a   Suarez, Almudena ^a   Ngoya, Edouard ^a   Hessane, Mohammed ^a   Obregon, Juan ^a   Camiade, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

^b THALES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DIVIDING CIRCUITS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

HARMONIC BALANCE EQUATIONS; PHASE LOCKED OSCILLATORS;

MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0027702222     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.273418     Document Type: Article

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