Tail current noise suppression in RF CMOS VCOs

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 342-348

  Andreani, Pietro ^a,b   Sjöland, Henrik ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

CMOS; Phase noise; RF; VCO

Indexed keywords

CAPACITIVE FILTERING; VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATORS (VCO);

CAPACITORS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NOISE ABATEMENT; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 0036504292     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.987086     Document Type: Article

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