Electronically tunable antenna pair and novel RF front-end architecture for software-defined radios

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2005, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 2701-2707

  Oh, Sung Hoon ^a   Aberle, James T ^a   Anantharaman, Sreeraman ^a   Arai, Kentaro ^a   Chong, Man Liang ^a   Koay, Seng Chee ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

ACU; Antenna; FET; FPGA; RF front end; SDRs

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; RADIO SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANTENNA CONTROL UNIT (ACU); FREQUENCY BANDS; RF FRONT END; SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 33746811023     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: 16870433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/ASP.2005.2701     Document Type: Article

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