A Flexible Digitally Controlled Oscillator Structure to Reconfigure the Frequency Band in Multi-band RF AD-PLL System

Reconfigurable architectures are more prominent in modern-day multi-band radio systems. This work has been conceptualized for a flexible 8-bit digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) design to suit r...

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