A 1.8-V 6/9-GHz reconfigurable dual-band quadrature LC VCO in SiGe BiCMOS technology

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1028-1032

  Shin, Hyunchol ^a,b   Xu, Zhiwei ^a   Chang, M Frank ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Dual band VCO; Reconfigurable VCO; SiGe VCO; Switchable VCO; Voltage controlled oscillator (VCO)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FREQUENCY DIVIDING CIRCUITS; MIXER CIRCUITS; NOTCH FILTERS; SILICON ALLOYS;

PHASE NOISES;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0038072742     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2003.811970     Document Type: Article

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