K a-band analog front-end for software-defined direct conversion receiver

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2768-2776

  Tatu, Serioja Ovidiu ^a,b   Moldovan, Emilia ^c   Wu, Ke ^{a,c,d,e,f,g,h,i}   Bosisio, Renato G ^a,c,d,j,k   Denidni, Tayeb A ^a,b,d,l  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b INRS EMT   (Canada)

^c POLY GRAMES RESEARCH CENTER   (Canada)

^d Institut National de Recherche Scientifique Energie Materiaux et Telecommunications Montreal ^*

^e Canadian Facility for Advanced Millimeter wave Engineering (FAME)   (Canada)

^f Electromagnetics Academy   (Canada)

^g Sigma Xi Honorary Society   (Canada)

^h LEOS   (Canada)

ⁱ Canadian Academy of Engineering CAE   (Canada)

^j MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^k UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^l URSI Commission C   (Canada)

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Author keywords

Direct conversion; Front end; Phase shift keying (PSK); Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM); Six port

Indexed keywords

DIRECT CONVERSION; FRONT-END; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION (QAM); SIX-PORT;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PHASE MODULATION; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; RADIO SYSTEMS;

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 27744473758     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.854181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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