A wideband low-phase-noise CMOS VCO

Proceedings of the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 555-558

  Berny, Axel D ^a   Niknejad, Ali M ^a   Meyer, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; RELAXATION OSCILLATORS; RESISTORS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TRANSCEIVERS; VARACTORS;

FREQUENCY TUNING; PHASE NOISE;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0242696039     PISSN: 08865930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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