Nonharmonic injection-locked phase-locked loops with applications in remote frequency calibration of passive wireless transponders

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2381-2393

  Soltani, Nima ^a   Yuan, Fei ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Injection locked phase locked loops; integrating feedback; passive wireless transponders; relaxation oscillators

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; FEEDBACK; RELAXATION OSCILLATORS; TRANSPONDERS;

FREQUENCY CALIBRATION; INJECTION-LOCKED PHASE-LOCKED LOOP; INJECTION-LOCKING; LOCAL OSCILLATORS; OSCILLATION FREQUENCY; OSCILLATOR DRIFTS; SIMULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; SUPPLY-VOLTAGE FLUCTUATION;

PHASE LOCKED LOOPS;

EID: 77957753247     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2010.2046228     Document Type: Article

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