Phase noise degradation of LC-tank VCOs due to substrate noise and package coupling

Proceedings of ESSCIRC 2005: 31st European Solid-State Circuits Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 105-108

  Méndez, Miguel A ^a   Mateo, Diego ^a   Aragonès, Xavier ^a   González, Jose Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; CIRCUIT OSCILLATIONS; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHASE MEASUREMENT; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

PACKAGE COUPLING; PHASE NOISE; SUBSTRATE NOISE;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 33747861016     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESSCIR.2005.1541569     Document Type: Conference Paper

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