• DocumentCode
    1084884
  • Title

    A study of injection locking and pulling in oscillators

  • Author

    Razavi, Behzad

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Volume
    39
  • Issue
    9
  • fYear
    2004
  • Firstpage
    1415
  • Lastpage
    1424
  • Abstract
    Injection locking characteristics of oscillators are derived and a graphical analysis is presented that describes injection pulling in time and frequency domains. An identity obtained from phase and envelope equations is used to express the requisite oscillator nonlinearity and interpret phase noise reduction. The behavior of phase-locked oscillators under injection pulling is also formulated.
  • Keywords
    injection locked oscillators; phase locked loops; phase locked oscillators; Adler equation; envelope equation; frequency domain; injection locking; injection pulling; oscillator nonlinearity; oscillator pulling; phase equation; phase noise reduction; phase-locked oscillators; quadrature oscillators; time domain; Clocks; Frequency domain analysis; Frequency synthesizers; Injection-locked oscillators; Nonlinear equations; Phase noise; Radio frequency; Signal synthesis; Transceivers; Voltage-controlled oscillators; Adler's equation; injection locking; injection pulling; oscillator nonlinearity; oscillator pulling; quadrature oscillators;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9200
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JSSC.2004.831608
  • Filename
    1327738