A fully integrated 0.18-μm CMOS direct conversion receiver front-end with on-chip LO for UMTS

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 15-23

  Gatta, Francesco ^a   Manstretta, Danilo ^a   Rossi, Paolo ^a   Svelto, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Direct conversion; Injection locking; Low noise amplifier (LNA); Mixer; Offset cancellation; RF CMOS; RF receiver; Universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS); Variable gain amplifier (VGA); Voltage controlled oscillator (VCO)

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); INTERMODULATION; MIXER CIRCUITS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TRANSMITTERS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

DIRECT CONVERSION RECEIVER; INJECTION LOCKING TECHNIQUE; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIER; QUADRATURE MIXER; UNIVERSAL MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM; VARIABLE GAIN AMPLIFIER;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0742321276     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2003.820865     Document Type: Article

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