Low power programmable-gain CMOS distributed LNA for ultra-wideband applications

IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Digest of Technical Papers

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 78-81

  Zhang, Frank ^a   Kinget, Peter ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; POWER SUPPLY CIRCUITS; TUNING;

LOW POWER DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIERS; PROGRAMMABLE GAIN; ULTRA-WIDEBAND APPLICATIONS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 33645686080     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLSIC.2005.1469338     Document Type: Conference Paper

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