A 1.8 GHz LC VCO with 1.3 GHz tuning range and mixed-signal amplitude calibration

IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Digest of Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue CIRCUITS SYMP., 2004, Pages 54-57

  Berny, Axel D ^a   Niknejad, Ali M ^a   Meyer, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplitude calibration; Phase noise; RF CMOS; Tuning range; VCO; Wideband

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BROADBAND NETWORKS; CAPACITORS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FREQUENCIES; MOS DEVICES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TOPOLOGY; TUNING;

AMPLITUDE CALIBRATION; PHASE NOISE; RF CMOS; TUNING RANGE; WIDEBAND;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 4644268771     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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