A 410-mW 1.22-GHz Downconverter in a Dual-Conversion Tuner IC for OpenCable Applications

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 714-718

  Montemayor, Raymond ^a,b  

^a Silicon Wave   (United States)

^b MaxLinear Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS); Dual conversion; OpenCable; Silicon on insulator (SOI) BiCMOS; Tuner

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; GAIN CONTROL; PHASE MODULATION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TUNING;

DOWN-CONVERTERS; DUAL CONVERSION;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION;

EID: 16544382815     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2004.825117     Document Type: Article

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