The quadrature LC oscillator: A complete portrait based on injection locking

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1916-1932

  Mirzaei, Ahmad ^b,c   Heidari, Mohammad E ^b,d   Bagheri, Rahim ^b,d   Chehrazi, Saeed ^b   Abidi, Asad A ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BROADCOM CORPORATION   (United States)

^d Wilinx Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Adler's equation; CMOS; Flicker noise; Frequency synthesizer; Injection locking; Oscillator; Phase noise; Qudarature signals; RF transceiver; Voltage controlled oscillator (VCO); White noise

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHASE NOISE; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCEIVERS; WHITE NOISE;

ADLER'S EQUATION; FLICKER NOISE; FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZER; INJECTION LOCKING; QUDARATURE SIGNALS;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 34548276409     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2007.903047     Document Type: Conference Paper

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