On the theory of quadrature oscillations obtained through parallel LC VCOs

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2509-2519

  Buonomo, Antonio ^a   Lo Schiavo, Alessandro ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

CMOS radio frequency integrated circuits; nonlinear oscillators; perturbation methods; quadrature oscillators; stability; synchronization

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; OSCILLISTORS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SYNCHRONIZATION;

CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; CMOS RADIO FREQUENCIES; NON-LINEAR OSCILLATORS; PARAMETER MISMATCHES; PERTURBATION METHOD; QUADRATURE OSCILLATOR; QUADRATURE VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR; SYNCHRONIZED OSCILLATIONS;

CIRCUIT OSCILLATIONS;

EID: 77957753910     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2010.2043166     Document Type: Article

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