Stability and operation of injection-locked regenerative frequency dividers

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2006-2019

  Farazian, Mohammad ^a   Gudem, Prasad S ^a   Larson, Lawrence E ^b  

^a QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractional frequency divider; inductorless design methodology; injection locked frequency divider (ILFD); injection locking; locking range; polyphase filter; regenerative frequency divider; ring oscillator; self resonance frequency (SRF); single sideband (SSB) mixer

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT SIMULATION; PHASE NOISE;

DESIGN METHODOLOGY; FRACTIONAL FREQUENCIES; INJECTION LOCKED FREQUENCY DIVIDER(ILFD); INJECTION-LOCKING; LOCKING RANGE; POLY PHASE FILTERS; REGENERATIVE FREQUENCY DIVIDER; RING OSCILLATOR; SELF-RESONANCE FREQUENCY; SINGLE SIDE-BAND MIXERS;

FREQUENCY DIVIDING CIRCUITS;

EID: 77955656728     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2010.2043012     Document Type: Article

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