A 1.8V, sub-mW, over 100% locking range, divide-by-3 and 7 complementary-injection-locked 4 GHz frequency divider

Proceedings of the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 259-262

  Lo, Yung Chung ^a   Chen, Hsien Pu ^a   Silva Martinez, Jose ^a   Hoyos, Sebastian ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CMOS TECHNOLOGY; DYNAMIC POWER; GHZ FREQUENCIES; INCIDENT POWER; INJECTION LOCKED; INJECTION LOCKED FREQUENCY DIVIDER; INJECTION SCHEMES; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; LOCKING RANGE; LOW POWER; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; MULTIPLE INPUTS; POWER CONSUMPTION; POWER PENALTY; POWER SUPPLY; PVT VARIATIONS; WIDE-BAND;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FREQUENCY DIVIDING CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION;

EID: 74049131655     PISSN: 08865930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CICC.2009.5280853     Document Type: Conference Paper

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