A 5-6-GHz bipolar quadrature-phase generator

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1737-1745

  Chung, Aichin ^a,b   Long, John R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Frequency division; Frequency multiplication; Phase noise; Quadrature phase generator; Regenerative quadrature divider; Wireless local area networking

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BROADBAND NETWORKS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ERROR DETECTION; FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS; HARMONIC GENERATION; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; TRANSCEIVERS;

FREQUENCY DIVISION; FREQUENCY MULTIPLICATION; PHASE NOISE; QUADRATURE PHASE GENERATORS; REGENERATIVE QUADRATURE DIVIDER;

BIPOLAR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

EID: 5444237144     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2004.833755     Document Type: Conference Paper

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