Time-domain model for injection locking in nonharmonic oscillators

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1648-1658

  Gangasani, Gautam Reddy ^a   Kinget, Peter R ^b  

^a IBM MICROELECTRONICS   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Injection lock; Injection locking dynamics; Injection locking range; Nonharmonic oscillators; Not given; Time domain model

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING;

INJECTION LOCK; INJECTION-LOCKING DYNAMICS; INJECTION-LOCKING RANGE; NONHARMONIC OSCILLATORS; NOT GIVEN; TIME DOMAIN MODELING;

FORECASTING;

EID: 53849111212     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2008.916605     Document Type: Article

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