Oscillator-AC: Restoring rigour to linearized small-signal analysis of oscillators

IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Digest of Technical Papers, ICCAD

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 604-609

  Mei, Ting ^a   Roychowdhury, Jaijeet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; LINEARIZATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AUGMENTING PHASE CONDITION EQUATIONS; BIVARIATE FREQUENCY VARIABLES; OSCILLATOR AC (OAC); SMALL SIGNAL ANALYSIS;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 33751422541     PISSN: 10923152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCAD.2005.1560138     Document Type: Conference Paper

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