Analysis of oscillator injection locking through phase-domain impulse-response

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1297-1305

  Maffezzoni, Paolo ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Frequency division; Impulse sensitivity function (ISF); Injection locking; Oscillator phase domain modeling; Synchronization region

Indexed keywords

EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; IMPULSE RESPONSE;

CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; EXTERNAL SIGNALS; FREQUENCY DIVISION; IMPULSE SENSITIVITY FUNCTIONS; INJECTION-LOCKING; MACRO MODEL; PHASE DOMAIN; PHASE-DOMAIN MODEL;

SYNCHRONIZATION;

EID: 45549093279     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2008.916692     Document Type: Article

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