Simulation of mutually coupled oscillators using nonlinear phase macromodels

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1456-1466

  Harutyunyan, Davit ^a   Rommes, Joost ^b   Ter Maten, Jan ^b   Schilders, Wil ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b NXP SEMICONDUCTORS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behavioral modeling; Circuit simulation; Injection Locking; Phase noise; Pulling; Voltage controlled oscillators (VCOs).

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL MODELING; COUPLED OSCILLATORS; INJECTION LOCKING; LOWER COST; MACRO-MODELS; NONLINEAR PHASE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PERTURBATION EFFECT; PULLING; RF-CIRCUITS; VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR; VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED OSCILLATORS (VCOS).;

CIRCUIT SIMULATION; COUPLED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); PHASE NOISE;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 70349740747     PISSN: 02780070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCAD.2009.2026359     Document Type: Article

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