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A low-voltage swing-enhanced Colpitts CMOS LC-QVCO based on first-harmonics coupling

Hemmati et al., 2019

Document ID
14716495504717847880
Author
Hemmati M
Dehghani R
Hakimi A
Publication year
Publication venue
Microelectronics Journal

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This work presents the design of a new low-voltage Colpitts LC quadrature voltage controlled oscillator (LC-QVCO). The proposed QVCO consists of two identical differential Colpitts VCOs in which g m-boosting techniques are employed to improve the start-up …
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