A low-power integrated tuner for cable telephony applications

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1757-1767

  Ling, Curtis ^a   Montemayor, Raymond ^a   Cicalini, Alberto ^a   Wang, Kevin ^a   Jansson, Lars ^a   Mucke, Lars ^a   Trihka, Pushp ^a   Kishore, Seendripu V ^a  

^a Silicon Wave Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cable telephony; CSO; CTB; Dual conversion; Integrated cable tuner; SOI BiCMOS; Upconversion; VCO calibration

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COAXIAL CABLES; GAIN CONTROL; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; TELEPHONE LINES; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

CABLE TELEPHONY;

TUNERS;

EID: 0036909356     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2002.804335     Document Type: Article

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