A 9.2-12GHz, 90nm digital fractional-N synthesizer with stochastic TDC calibration and -35/-41dBc integrated phase noise in the 5/2.5GHz bands

IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Digest of Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 143-144

  Ravi, A ^a   Pellerano, S ^a   Ornelas, C ^a   Lakdawala, H ^a   Tetzlaff, T ^a   Degani, O ^b   Sajadieh, M ^a   Soumyanath, K ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (Israel)

Author keywords

802.11n; 802.16e; Digital PLL; Frequency synthesizer; TDC calibration and phase noise minimization

Indexed keywords

802.11N; 802.16E; 90NM CMOS; DIGITAL PLL; FRACTIONAL-N SYNTHESIZER; GHZ BAND; MINIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; TDC CALIBRATION AND PHASE NOISE MINIMIZATION; TIME TO DIGITAL CONVERSION;

CALIBRATION; FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE NOISE; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

VLSI CIRCUITS;

EID: 77958009478     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLSIC.2010.5560321     Document Type: Conference Paper

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