A time-variant analysis of the 1/f2 phase noise in CMOS parallel LC-tank quadrature oscillators

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1749-1760

  Andreani, Pietro ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

CMOS; LC tank; Oscillators; Phase noise; Quadrature

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; MOSFET DEVICES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); TOPOLOGY;

CLOSED-FORM FORMULAS; LC-TANK OSCILLATORS; PHASE NOISE;

TIME VARYING NETWORKS;

EID: 33747855563     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2006.879011     Document Type: Article

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