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Voltage-Controlled Oscillators<br />

swing downwards until the current sources start to give out. Most current<br />

sources in a bipolar technology (depending on how they are built) are happy<br />

until they hit about 0.5V or less.<br />

Let us choose a swing of about 2 � 0.8V = 1.6V swing total.<br />

If we bias the base at 1.65V and it swings down 0.8V from there, then<br />

it will sit at about 0.85V. The V BE at this point will be small,

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