An X-band superharmonic injection-coupled quadrature VCO (IC-QVCO) with a tunable tail filter for I/Q phase calibration

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 123-126

  Chamas, Ibrahim R ^a   Raman, Sanjay ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CALIBRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY;

IMAGE REJECTION; PHASE CALIBRATION; RESIDUAL QUADRATURE ERROR; TUNABLE TAIL ALTER (TTF); TUNABLE TAIL FILTERS;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 34748917569     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2007.380847     Document Type: Conference Paper

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