Cyclostationary noise analysis of large RF circuits with multitone excitations

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 324-335

  Roychowdhury, Jaijeet ^a,c,d   Long, David ^a   Feldmann, Peter ^a,b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b IEEE

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyclostationary noise; Harmonic balance; Harmonic power spectral density; HPSD; Mixer noise; Nonlinear noise analysis; RF noise

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDPASS FILTERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MIXER CIRCUITS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SHOT NOISE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THERMAL NOISE;

CYCLOSTATIONARY NOISE ANALYSIS; HARMONIC POWER SPECTRAL DENSITIES (HPSD);

LSI CIRCUITS;

EID: 0032022912     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.661198     Document Type: Article

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