BiCMOS circuits for analog viterbi decoders

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1527-1537

  Shakiba, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Johns, David A ^a   Martin, Kenneth W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Gennum Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG STORAGE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ANALOG CIRCUITS;

DECODING;

EID: 0032268116     PISSN: 10577130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/82.746664     Document Type: Article

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