Analysis and design of a 1.8-GHz CMOS LC quadrature VCO

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1737-1747

  Andreani, Pietro ^a   Bonfanti, Andrea ^b   Romanò, Luca ^b   Samori, Carlo ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

CMOS; Phase error; Phase noise; Quadrature; RF; Voltage controlled oscillator

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; TUNING; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

PHASE NOISES;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0036918499     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2002.804352     Document Type: Conference Paper

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