On the Dynamics of Regenerative Frequency Dividers

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1413-1417

  Anand, Seema ^b   Heydari, Payam ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b BROADCOM CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Injection locked frequency divider (ILFD); nanoscale CMOS oscillator; quasi locked and locked modes; regenerative (RFD)

Indexed keywords

BLUETOOTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

INJECTION-LOCKED FREQUENCY DIVIDER (ILFD); LOCKED MODE; QUASI-LOCKED MODE; REGENERATIVE FREQUENCY DIVIDERS (RFD);

FREQUENCY DIVIDING CIRCUITS;

EID: 33947374721     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2006.886053     Document Type: Article

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