A precise 90° quadrature OTA-C oscillator tunable in the 50-130-MHz range

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 649-663

  Linares Barranco, Bernabé ^a   Serrano Gotarredona, Teresa ^a   Ramos Martos, Juan ^a   Ceballos Cáceres, Joaquín ^a   Miguel Mora, José ^a   Linares Barranco, Alejandro ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRÓNICA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amplitude control; Analog very large scale integration (VLSI); GmC; Impedance probe; Multiphase oscillators; Operational transconductance amplifiers (OTA) C; Oscillator stability; Phase noise; Quadrature oscillators; Sinusoidal oscillators; Transconductance capacitance oscillators

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS; PHASE CONTROL; TRANSCONDUCTANCE; VLSI CIRCUITS;

AMPLITUDE CONTROL; OPERATIONAL TRANSCONDUCTANCE OSCILLATOR; QUADRATURE OSCILLATORS; SINUSOIDAL OSCILLATORS;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 2542568172     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2004.823673     Document Type: Article

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