General envelope-transient formulation of phase-locked loops using three time scales

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1310-1320

  Sancho, Sergio ^a   Súarez, Almudena ^a   Chuan, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Modulation; Nonlinear systems; Phase noise; Phase locked loops (PLLs); Simulation; Stability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCIES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MODULATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

CHARGE PUMP (CP); HARMONIC BALANCE (HB); PHASE DETECTORS (PD); PHASE NOISE;

PHASE LOCKED LOOPS;

EID: 2442636674     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2004.825667     Document Type: Article

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