Direct-Conversion Radio Transceivers for Digital Communications

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 1995, Pages 1399-1410

  Abidi, Asad A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DIGITAL FILTERS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MODULATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ANALOG FRONT END; DIRECT CONVERSION RADIO TRANSCEIVERS; IMAGE CHANNEL; MODULATION FORMAT; RADIO MESSAGING SYSTEMS;

TRANSCEIVERS;

EID: 0029508874     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: 1558173X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.482187     Document Type: Article

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