Superharmonic injection-locked frequency dividers

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 813-821

  Rategh, Hamid R ^a,b,c   Lee, Thomas H ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Rockwell Semiconductor Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

DIFFERENTIAL INJECTION LOCKED FREQUENCY DIVIDER; INJECTION LOCKED OSCILLATORS; RADIO FREQUENCY INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SINGLE ENDED INJECTION LOCKED FREQUENCY DIVIDER;

FREQUENCY DIVIDING CIRCUITS;

EID: 0032652401     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.766815     Document Type: Article

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