Oscillator phase noise: A tutorial

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 326-335

  Lee, Thomas H ^a   Hajimiri, Ali ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE MODULATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

LINEAR TIME-INVARIANT (LTI) PHASE NOISE THEORY;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 0033905094     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.826814     Document Type: Article

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