A subharmonically injected LC delay line oscillator for 17-GHz quadrature LO generation

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1434-1445

  Ma, Dennis K ^a   Long, John R ^b  

^a Synopsys Canada Corporation   (Canada)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

HiperLINK; In phase and quadrature (I Q) signal generation; Injection locking; Local oscillator; Subharmonic multiplication; Symmetric and asymmetric LC delay line; Wireless local area networking

Indexed keywords

HIPERLINK; IN-PHASE AND QUADRATURE (I/Q) SIGNAL GENERATION; INJECTION LOCKING; LC DELAY LINES; LOCAL OSCILLATORS; SUBHARMONIC MULTIPLICATION; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC DELAY LINES; ELECTRIC FILTERS; ERROR ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; SIGNAL GENERATORS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 4444256676     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2004.831610     Document Type: Conference Paper

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