Design and optimization of multipath ring oscillators

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2332-2345

  Hafez, Amr Amin ^a   Yang, Chih Kong Ken ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled oscillators; digital PLL; multipath ring oscillator (MPRO); multiphase oscillator; oscillation modes; phase noise; time to digital converters

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

COUPLED OSCILLATORS; DIGITAL PLL; MULTIPHASE OSCILLATORS; OSCILLATION MODE; RING OSCILLATOR; TIME TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS;

PHASE NOISE;

EID: 80053560574     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2011.2142810     Document Type: Article

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