A GSM-GPRS/UMTS FDD-TDD/WLAN 802.11a-b-g multi-standard carrier generation system

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1513-1521

  Koukab, Adil ^b   Lei, Yu ^a,b   Declercq, Michel J ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Analog front end (ATE); Frequency synthesizer; GSM; Multi standard; Phase noise; Phase locked loop (PLL); UMTS; Voltage controlled oscillator (VCO); Wireless communications; WLAN

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; INTEROPERABILITY; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANALOG FRONT-END (ATE); FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZER; MULTI-STANDARD; PHASE NOISE; UMTS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WLAN;

CARRIER COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33746352085     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2006.873928     Document Type: Conference Paper

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