A 1.3-2.8 GHz wide range CMOS LC-VCO using variable inductor

2005 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, ASSCC 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 265-268

  Ito, Yusaku ^a   Yoshihara, Yoshiaki ^a   Sugawara, Hirotaka ^a   Okada, Kenichi ^a   Masu, Kazuya ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CAPACITORS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PHASE NOISE; TUNING;

FOM; OSCILLATION FREQUENCY; SWITCHED CAPACITORS; VARIABLE ELEMENTS;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 34250691472     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASSCC.2005.251716     Document Type: Conference Paper

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