A General Method to Simulate Noise in Oscillators Based on Frequency Domain Techniques

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 1993, Pages 2256-2263

  Anzill, Werner ^a   Russer, Peter ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR HÖCHSTFREQUENZTECHNIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT OSCILLATIONS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NOISE GENERATORS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

NOISE BEHAVIOR; NOISE SOURCES; PIECEWISE HARMONIC BALANCE TECHNIQUE; SINGLE SIDEBAND PHASE NOISE;

MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0027815446     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.260715     Document Type: Article

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