Mechanism of synchronization in frequency dividers

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 190-199

  Amann, Andreas ^a   Mortell, Michael Philip ^b   O'Reilly, Eoin P ^a   Quinlan, Michael ^b   Rachinskii, Dmitrii ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Injection locked oscillators; Resonance; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; OSCILLISTORS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; RESONANCE; SYNCHRONIZATION;

ASYMPTOTIC APPROXIMATION; FREQUENCY DIVIDERS; INJECTION LOCKED FREQUENCY DIVIDER; INJECTION LOCKED OSCILLATORS; LOCKING PHENOMENON; NUMERICAL RESULTS; QUALITATIVE EVALUATIONS; RESPONSE FUNCTIONS;

FREQUENCY DIVIDING CIRCUITS;

EID: 60649117760     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2008.926984     Document Type: Article

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