A Quadrature Sinusoidal Oscillator With Phase-Preserving Wide-Range Linear Frequency Tunability and Frequency-Independent Amplitude

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1279-1283

  Loizos, Dimitrios N ^a   Sotiriadis, Paul P ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplitude control; continuous phase frequency shift keying; frequency control; phase preservation; quadrature oscillator

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FREQUENCY CONTROL; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; HARMONIC DISTORTION; MODULATORS;

LINEAR FREQUENCY TUNABILITY; PHASE PRESERVATION; QUADRATURE SINUSOIDAL OSCILLATOR;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 37849185651     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2006.882359     Document Type: Article

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