A low phase-noise multi-phase LO generator for wideband demodulators based on reconfigurable sub-harmonic mixers

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2104-2115

  Mazzanti, Andrea ^a,b   Vahidfar, Mohammad B ^c   Sosio, Marco ^a   Svelto, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c SiTune   (United States)

Author keywords

Fast hopping synthesizer; injection locking; multi phase local oscillator; phase noise; ring oscillator; sub harmonic mixers; ultra wide band; UWB

Indexed keywords

FAST HOPPING SYNTHESIZER; INJECTION-LOCKING; LOCAL OSCILLATORS; RING OSCILLATOR; SUB-HARMONIC MIXER; UWB;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DEMODULATORS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MIXER CIRCUITS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); PHASE NOISE; RADIO; SPECTRAL DENSITY;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 77957606198     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2010.2060258     Document Type: Conference Paper

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