A CMOS passive mixer with low flicker noise for low-power direct-conversion receiver

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1084-1093

  Zhou, Sining ^a   Chang, Mau Chung Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complementary switches; Conversion gain; Dc offset cancellation; Direct conversion receiver; Flicker noise; Input referred baseband noise; LO bias; Passive mixer; RF CMOS; Second order intermodulation; Single balanced.

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC SWITCHES; INTERMODULATION; MIXER CIRCUITS; RESISTORS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

COMPLEMENTARY SWITCHES; CONVERSION GAIN; DC OFFSET CANCELLATION; DIRECT CONVERSION RECEIVERS (DCR); FLICKER NOISE; INPUT-REFERRED BASEBAND NOISE; LO BIAS; PASSIVE MIXER; RF CMOS; SECON-ORDER INTERMODULATION;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 18444406838     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2005.845981     Document Type: Article

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