Understanding injection locking in negative-resistance LC oscillators intuitively using nonlinear feedback analysis

Proceedings of the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 729-732

  Wan, Yayun ^a   Lai, Xiaolue ^a   Roychowdhury, Jaijeet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CIRCUIT THEORY; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FEEDBACK; INDUCTANCE;

NONLINEAR FEEDBACK ANALYSIS; OSCILLATOR INJECTION LOCKING;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 33847104236     PISSN: 08865930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CICC.2005.1568771     Document Type: Conference Paper

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