The devil's staircase as a method of comparing injection-locked frequency divider topologies

Proceedings of the 2005 European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 317-320

  O'Neill, David ^a   Bourke, David ^a   Kennedy, Michael P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT THEORY; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PRODUCT DESIGN;

DEVIL'S STAIRCASE STRUCTURE; INJECTION LOCKED FREQUENCY DIVIDER (ILFD);

FREQUENCY DIVIDING CIRCUITS;

EID: 33749017359     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCTD.2005.1523124     Document Type: Conference Paper

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