A digitally controlled oscillator system for SAW-less transmitters in cellular handsets

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1160-1169

  Hung, Chih Ming ^a,b   Staszewski, Robert Bogdan ^a,b   Barton, Nathen ^b   Lee, Meng Chang ^a,b   Leipold, Dirk ^b,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^c Digital RF Processer (DRP) Group

Author keywords

Cellular phone; Channel hot carrier (CHC); Deepsubmicron CMOS; Digitally controlled oscillator (DCO); Electromigration (EM); Gate oxide reliability; GSM; Mobile phone; Quantization noise; Sigma delta modulator; Varactor; Voltage controlled oscillator (VCO)

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR PHONE; CHANNEL HOT CARRIER (CHC); DEEPSUBMICRON CMOS; DIGITALLY CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR (DCO); GATE-OXIDE RELIABILITY; MOBILE PHONE; QUANTIZATION NOISE; SIGMA-DELTA MODULATOR;

DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTROMIGRATION; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; RELIABILITY; VARACTORS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646452916     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2006.872739     Document Type: Conference Paper

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