A 1.8-GHz injection-locked quadrature CMOS VCO with low phase noise and high phase accuracy

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 554-560

  Mazzanti, Andrea ^a   Svelto, Francesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

CMOS radio frequency integrated circuits; Injection locking (IL); Local oscillators; Phase noise; Quadrature generation; Voltage controlled oscillators (VCO)

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MIXER CIRCUITS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

IMAGE BAND REJECTION; INJECTION LOCKING; LOCAL OSCILLATORS; NOISE FIGURE; QUADRATURE GENERATION;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 33645818380     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2005.858161     Document Type: Article

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