A high-performance CMOS voltage-controlled oscillator for ultra-low-voltage operations

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 467-473

  Hsieh, Hsieh Hung ^a,b   Lu, Liang Hung ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Capacitive feedback; Forward body bias (FBB); Ultra low power; Ultra low voltage; Voltage controlled oscillators (VCOS)

Indexed keywords

CAPACITIVE FEEDBACK; FORWARD BODY BIAS (FBB); ULTRA-LOW POWER; ULTRA-LOW VOLTAGE; VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED OSCILLATORS (VCOS);

CAPACITANCE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FEEDBACK; PHASE NOISE; TOPOLOGY; TUNING; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 33847793479     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.891471     Document Type: Article

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