A wide-tuning range 1.8 GHz quadrature VCO utilizing coupled ring oscillators

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 5143-5146

  Mesgarzadeh, Behzad ^a   Alvandpour, Atila ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CIRCUIT SIMULATION; INDUCTANCE; PHASE NOISE; TOPOLOGY; TUNING;

COUPLED RING OSCILLATORS; LC-BASED FILTERING; QUADRATURE OUTPUTS; TUNING RANGE;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 34547376439     PISSN: 02714310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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