Low-Noise Voltage-Controlled Oscillators Using Enhanced LC-Tanks

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 1995, Pages 794-804

  Craninckx, Jan ^a   Steyaert, Michiel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; CIRCUIT OSCILLATIONS; CRYSTAL OSCILLATORS; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ACTIVE INDUCTORS; AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL CIRCUIT; LC TANK; LC TUNED OSCILLATORS; OSCILLATOR DESIGN; OSCILLATOR THEORY; PHASE NOISE ASPECTS; SERIES RESISTANCE;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0029538852     PISSN: 10577130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/82.476177     Document Type: Article

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