A silicon bipolar transmitter front-end for 802.11a and HIPERLAN2 wireless LANs

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1451-1458

  Italia, Alessandro ^a   La Paglia, Luca ^b   Scuderi, Antonino ^b   Carrara, Francesco ^a   Ragonese, Egidio ^a   Palmisano, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

802.11a; HIPERLAN2; Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); Radio transmitter; Silicon bipolar technology; Wireless local area network (WLAN)

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; BANDWIDTH; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; TRANSCONDUCTANCE; TUNING;

802.11A; HIPERLAN2; RADIO TRANSMITTER; SILICON BIPOLAR TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 22544459379     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2005.847327     Document Type: Article

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