A tunable flipflop-based frequency divider up to 113 GHz and a fully differential 77GHz push-push VCO in SiGe BiCMOS technology

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 47-50

  Trotta, S ^a   Li, H ^a   Trivedi, V P ^a   John, J ^a  

^a FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar technology; Flipflop; Frequency divider; High frequency; Latch; Mm wave vco; Sige; VCO

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR TECHNOLOGY; FLIPFLOP; FREQUENCY DIVIDER; HIGH FREQUENCY; LATCH; MM-WAVE VCO; SIGE; VCO;

DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FREQUENCY DIVIDING CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVES; RADIO; RADIO WAVES; SEMICONDUCTING GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SILICON ALLOYS; TECHNOLOGY; TUNING; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

BICMOS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 70350223805     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2009.5135487     Document Type: Conference Paper

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