A 9.3MHz to 5.7GHz tunable LC-based VCO using a divide-by-N injection-locked frequency divider

Proceedings of Technical Papers - 2009 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 81-84

  Hara, Shoichi ^a   Okada, Kenichi ^a   Matsuzawa, Akira ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

90NM CMOS; CHIP AREAS; CONTINUOUS FREQUENCY; DIVIDE-BY-N; INJECTION LOCKED FREQUENCY DIVIDER; MEASURED RESULTS; MULTIBAND; OUTPUT FREQUENCY; QUADRATURE OUTPUTS; TUNING RANGES; VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR; WIDE-BAND;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; TUNING; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

FREQUENCY DIVIDING CIRCUITS;

EID: 76249116015     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASSCC.2009.5357184     Document Type: Conference Paper

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