Multi-phase injection widens lock range of ring-oscillator-based frequency dividers

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 656-671

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

^a IEEE

^b BROADCOM CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Wilinx Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Adler's equation; CMOS; Flicker noise; Frequency divider; Injection locking; Multiple injection; Phase noise; Progressive injection; Quadrature signals; RF transceiver; Ring oscillator; White noise

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FLICKERING; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); TRANSCEIVERS; WHITE NOISE;

INJECTION LOCKING; MULTIPLE INJECTION; PROGRESSIVE INJECTION; QUADRATURE SIGNALS; RING OSCILLATORS;

FREQUENCY DIVIDING CIRCUITS;

EID: 40149110062     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2007.916602     Document Type: Article

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