Analysis and design of a CMOS phase-tunable injection-coupled LC quadrature VCO (PTIC-QVCO)

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 784-796

  Chamas, Ibrahim R ^a   Raman, Sanjay ^b  

^a QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

^b State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross coupled differential oscillator; Image rejection; Injection locking; Quadrature phase generation; RF CMOS; Superharmonic coupling

Indexed keywords

CEMENTS; PHASE NOISE; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

CROSS-COUPLED DIFFERENTIAL OSCILLATOR; IMAGE REJECTION; INJECTION LOCKING; QUADRATURE PHASE GENERATION; RF CMOS; SUPERHARMONIC COUPLING;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 61449109297     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2008.2011976     Document Type: Article

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