Oscillator noise: A nonlinear perturbative theory including orbital fluctuations and phase-orbital correlation

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2485-2497

  Traversa, Fabio L ^a   Bonani, Fabrizio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autononmous systems; circuit simulation; Floquet theory; oscillator noise

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT SIMULATION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC);

AUTONONMOUS SYSTEMS; FLOQUET THEORY; FREE-RUNNING OSCILLATORS; ORBITAL FLUCTUATIONS; OSCILLATOR EQUATIONS; OSCILLATOR NOISE; STATISTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; WHITE GAUSSIAN NOISE;

PHASE NOISE;

EID: 80052692000     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2011.2123531     Document Type: Article

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