Design of wide-band CMOS VCO for multiband wireless LAN applications

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1333-1342

  Fong, Neric H W ^a,b   Plouchart, Jean Olivier ^c   Zamdmer, Noah ^d   Liu, Duixian ^c   Wagner, Lawrence F ^d   Plett, Calvin ^b   Tarr, N Garry ^b  

^a Cognio Canada Inc ^*  (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d IBM MICROELECTRONICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Accumulation MOS (AMOS) varactor; Bandswitching; CMOS; Flicker noise; Phase noise; Radio frequency (RF); Silicon on insulator (SOI); Single loop inductor; Voltage controlled oscillator (VCO); Wide band

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; RESONATORS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; SWITCHING; TUNING; VARACTORS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

SINGLE-LOOP INDUCTORS;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0042700231     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2003.814440     Document Type: Article

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