Characterization and modeling of accumulation-mode MOS varactors

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1554-1557

  Sameni, Pedram ^a   Siu, Chris ^b   Iniewski, Krzysztof ^c   Mirabbasi, Shahriar ^a   Djahanshahi, Hormoz ^b   Hamour, Marwa ^a   Ghana, Jatinder ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PMC Sierra Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

De embedding; Modeling; MOS varactor; Voltage controlled oscillator (VCO)

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOS DEVICES; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

DE-EMBEDDING; MODELING; MOS VARACTOR;

VARACTORS;

EID: 33751316533     PISSN: 08407789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCECE.2005.1557277     Document Type: Conference Paper

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