, then P(t,T) = (T) does not depend on t. oscillating signal's phase Standard deviation of a stochastic variable normalized time (angular) frequency in [rad/sec] set of complex numbers set of real numbers set of integer numbers Abbreviations Computer-Aided Design Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor CT-LTI Continuous-Time Linear Time-Invariant Differential Algebraic equation Digital Cellular System DT-LTI Discrete-Time Linear Time-Invariant Electronic Design Automation Field Programmable Gate Array Harmonic Transfer Function Harmonic Transfer Matrix Harmonic Power Spectral Density Integrated Circuit Intermediate-Frequent Impulse Sensitivity Function Low-Noise Amplifier Linear Periodically Time-Varying Linear Time-Invariant Linear Time-Varying Local Oscillator Multi-Input Multi-Output Metal Oxide Semiconductor MOS Transistor Ordinary differential equation Pulse Amplitude Modulation Principal Component Analysis Probability Density Function Phase-Frequency Detector Phase-Locked Loop Perturbation Projection Vector Pulse Shift Keying Power Spectral Density Quadrature Pulse Shift Keying Radio Frequent Root Mean Square Surface Acoustic Wave Single-Input Single-Output SPICE Name of a circuit simulator originally developed at Berkeley SPICE-like In this text, the word "SPICE-like" is used to indicate simulation al- gorithms that either build on a Runge-Kutta method or on numerical differentiation formulas. Voltage-Controlled Oscillator Verilog A language to describe the operation of digital electronic systems and circuits. Verilog-AMS A language to describe the operation of mixed-signal electronic sys- tems and circuits Very high speed integrated circuit Hardware Description Language. A language to describe the operation of digital electronic systems and circuits. VHDL-AMS Very high speed integrated circuit Hardware Description Language with Analog and Mixed-Signal extensions. A language to describe the operation of mixed-signal electronic systems and circuits. Wireless Local Area Network Chapter 1 Introduction To thos