A new regenerative divider by four up to 160 GHz in SiGe bipolar technology

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1709-1712

  Trotta, Saverio ^a,b   Knapp, Herbert ^a   Meister, Thomas F ^a   Aufinger, Klaus ^a   Bock, Josef ^a   Dehlink, Bernhard ^a,b   Simbürger, Werner ^a   Scholtz, Arpad L ^b  

^a INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Frequency dividers; Gilbert cell; Miller divider; Regenerative divider; SiGe

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; FREQUENCY DIVIDING CIRCUITS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

FREQUENCY DIVIDERS; GILBERT CELLS; HIGH SPEED REGENERATIVE DIVIDERS; MILLER DIVIDERS;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY;

EID: 34250363175     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2006.249708     Document Type: Conference Paper

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