A study of digital and analog automatic-amplitude control circuitry for voltage-controlled oscillators

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 352-356

  Rogers, John W M ^a   Rahn, David ^b,c   Plett, Calvin ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SiGe Semiconductor   (Canada)

^c Cognio Canada Inc ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Broad band communications; Phase noise; Radio frequency integrated circuits; SiGe; Voltage controlled oscillators (VCO)

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; THERMAL EFFECTS; TUNING; VARACTORS;

AMPLITUDE CONTROL;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0037321687     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2002.807401     Document Type: Article

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