Integrated VCO design for MICS transceivers

Proceedings of the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 765-768

  Tekin, Ahmet ^b   Yuce, Mehmet R ^a   Liu, Wentai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COUPLINGS; TRANSCEIVERS;

CONTROL SIGNALS; INDUCTIVE COUPLING TECHNIQUES; MICS TRANSCEIVERS;

INTEGRATING CIRCUITS;

EID: 36348997453     PISSN: 08865930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CICC.2006.320974     Document Type: Conference Paper

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