A 1.8-GHz CMOS Low-Phase-Noise Voltage-Controlled Oscillator with Prescaler

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 1995, Pages 1474-1482

  Craninckx, Jan ^a   Steyaert, Michel S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; EMITTER COUPLED LOGIC CIRCUITS; FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS; FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

LOW PHASE NOISE VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATORS; ON-CHIP BONDWIRES; PRESCALER;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0029516517     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: 1558173X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.482195     Document Type: Article

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