A low-leakage open-loop frequency synthesizer allowing small-area on-chip loop filter

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 195-199

  Jonsson, Fredrik ^a   Olsson, Håkan ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Frequency modulation; Frequency stability; Frequency synthesizers; Leakage currents; Phase locked loops; Phase noise; Transceivers

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT OSCILLATIONS; FREQUENCY STABILITY; FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; OSCILLISTORS; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; PHASE NOISE; TRANSCEIVERS;

CHARGE PUMP; CMOS PROCESSS; FREQUENCY DRIFTS; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING(FSK); LOW LEAKAGE; OPEN-LOOP MODULATION; SMALL COMPONENTS; TOTAL POWER CONSUMPTION;

FREQUENCY MODULATION;

EID: 64049106123     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2009.2015366     Document Type: Article

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