The effect of mismatches and delay on the quadrature error of a cross-coupled relaxation oscillator

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2592-2598

  Fernandes, Jorge ^a   Kouwenhoven, Michiel H L ^b   van den Bos, Chris ^c   Oliveira, Luis B ^a   Verhoeven, Chris J M ^d  

^a INESC ID   (Portugal)

^b National Semiconductor BV   (Netherlands)

^c DelftUnivTechnol KatholiekeUniv   (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cross coupled oscillators; Mismatch; Oscillators; Quadrature oscillators; Relaxation oscillators

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

COMPONENT MISMATCH; CROSS-COUPLED OSCILLATORS; EXPLICIT EQUATIONS; HIGH-LEVEL MODELING; MISMATCH; OSCILLATION FREQUENCY; QUADRATURE OSCILLATOR; QUADRATURE OUTPUTS;

RELAXATION OSCILLATORS;

EID: 64849104554     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2007.906069     Document Type: Article

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