A New Approach to the Modeling of the Dynamics of RF VCO's and Some of Its Practical Implications

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 1993, Pages 895-901

  Sarafian, Gideon ^a   Kaplan, Ben Zion ^b  

^a Ben Gurion International Airport ^*  (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LINEAR NETWORK ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; STATE ESTIMATION;

COLPITTS OSCILLATORS; RADIO FREQUENCY VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATORS;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0027853226     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/81.269030     Document Type: Article

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