Toward multistandard mobile terminals - Fully integrated receivers requirements and architectures

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 3 II, 2005, Pages 1026-1038

  Brandolini, Massimo ^a   Rossi, Paolo ^a   Manstretta, Danilo ^a,b   Svelto, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b BROADCOM CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

BiCMOS; Bluetooth; CMOS; Global system for mobile communications (GSM); Low IF; Low noise amplifier (LNA); Mixer; Multistandard; Radio receivers; Universal mobile telecommuniation system (UMTS); Voltage controlled oscillator (VCO); Wireless communications

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RADIO RECEIVERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BICMOS; BLUETOOTH; LOW IF; LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIER (LNA); MIXER; MULTISTANDARD; UNIVERSAL MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM (UMTS); VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATORS (VCO); WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK (LAN);

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 15844425476     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.843505     Document Type: Article

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