A 0.83-2.5-GHz continuously tunable quadrature VCO

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2620-2626

  Guermandi, Davide ^a,b   Tortori, Paola ^a,b,c   Franchi, Eleonora ^a,b   Gnudi, Antonio ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CMOS frequency synthesis; Continuous tuning range; LC QVCO; RF CMOS; Wideband VCO

Indexed keywords

CMOS FREQUENCY SYNTHESIS; CONTINUOUS TUNING RANGE; LC-QVCO; RF CMOS; WIDEBAND VCO;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MULTIPLEXING;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 29044446750     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2005.857427     Document Type: Conference Paper

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