CMOS VCO's for PLL frequency synthesis in GHz digital mobile radio communications

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1511-1524

  Thamsirianunt, Manop ^b,c,d   Kwasniewski, Tadeusz A ^a,c,e,f,g  

^a IEEE

^b Exar Corporation   (United States)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d King Mongkut Institut   (Thailand)

^e WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^f Voest Alpine AG   (Austria)

^g LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

CMOS oscillator; ECO; Emitter coupled oscillator; Linearized MOSFET model; Multivibrator; Phase locked loop; Phase noise simulation; PLL frequency synthesizer; Relaxation oscillator; Ring oscillator; VCO; Voltage controlled oscillator

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; MOBILE RADIO SYSTEMS; MOSFET DEVICES; MULTIVIBRATORS; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; RADIO COMMUNICATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

DIGITAL MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATIONS; PHASE NOISE SIMULATION; RING OSCILLATORS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0031257973     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.634659     Document Type: Article

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