A 72-mW CMOS 802.11a direct conversion front-end with 3.5-dB NF and 200-kHz 1/f noise corner

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 970-977

  Valla, Mario ^a   Montagna, Giampiero ^b   Castello, Rinaldo ^c   Tonietto, Riccardo ^c   Bietti, Ivan ^a  

^a STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE MARIO BOELLA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

1 f corner; 802.11a; CMOS receiver; Low power dissipation; Quadrature; Synthesizer; Wireless system; WLAN

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; PASSIVE NETWORKS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TRANSCEIVERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

802.11A; CMOS RECEIVER; I/F CORNER; LOW POWER DISSIPATION; QUADRATURE; SYNTHESIZER; WIRELESS SYSTEMS; WLAN;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 18744397622     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2004.842847     Document Type: Conference Paper

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