Analysis and Design of a Wide-Tuning-Range VCO With Quadrature Outputs

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1209-1213

  Lee, Shuenn Yuh ^a   Chen, Ching Yi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Quadrature; voltage controlled oscillator; wide tuning range

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008036010     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2008.2008054     Document Type: Article

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