Evaluating pulling effects in oscillators due to small-signal injection

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

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 22-31

  Maffezzoni, Paolo ^a   D'Amore, Dario ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Injection locking; Injection pulling; Oscillator phase domain macomodeling; Perturbation projection vector (PPV); RF oscillator reliability

Indexed keywords

INJECTION PULLING; INJECTION-LOCKING; PERTURBATION PROJECTION VECTOR (PPV); PROJECTION VECTORS; RF OSCILLATOR;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 70349744596     PISSN: 02780070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCAD.2008.2009142     Document Type: Article

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