Adaptivity of voltage-controlled oscillators - Theory and design

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 894-901

  Tasić, Aleksandar ^a   Serdijn, Wouter A ^a   Long, John R ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptive circuits; Analog circuits; Loop gain; Low power integrated circuit (IC) design; Phase noise tuning; RF circuits; Voltage controlled oscillators (VCOs)

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; POWER INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

ADAPTIVE CIRCUITS; ANALOG CIRCUITS; LOOP GAIN; LOW POWER INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (IC) DESIGN; PHASE NOISE TUNING; RF CIRCUITS;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 20144372665     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2005.846223     Document Type: Article

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