Design considerations for high-frequency crystal oscillators digitally trimmable to sub-ppm accuracy

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 408-416

  Huang, Qiuting ^a,b   Basedau, Philipp ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CMOS oscillators; Crystal oscillator; Digital trimming; High frequency oscillators; Low power; Oscillation amplitude; Sub ppm accuracy

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL TRIMMING; OSCILLATION AMPLITUDE;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC FREQUENCY CONTROL; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; NEGATIVE RESISTANCE; TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

CRYSTAL OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0031360793     PISSN: 10638210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/92.645067     Document Type: Article

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