4.5-mW 900-MHz CMOS receiver for wireless paging

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1085-1096

  Darabi, Hooman ^a,b   Abidi, Asad A ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b Innovent Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; MIXER CIRCUITS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PAGING SYSTEMS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

FLICKER NOISE; INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCY; NOISE FIGURE; PHASE NOISE; WIRELESS PAGING;

RADIO RECEIVERS;

EID: 0034249645     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.859497     Document Type: Article

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