Estimating the locking range of analog dividers through a phase-domain macromodel

This work describes an efficient method to estimate and compare the locking range of Injection-Locked-Frequency-Dividers. The method can be exploited during the design phase to explore rapidly how the locking range varies for many possible parameter settings and injection strategies.

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