Design of adaptive multimode RF front-end circuits

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 313-321

  Tasić, Aleksandar ^a,b   Lim, Su Tarn ^a,b   Serdijn, Wouter A ^a,b   Long, John R ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptive circuits; Image reject downconverter; Mixer; Multistandard circuits; RF front end; Voltage controlled oscillator

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CIRCUITS; IMAGE-REJECT DOWNCONVERTER; MULTISTANDARD CIRCUITS; RF FRONT-END; VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; MULTIMEDIA SERVICES; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 33847733572     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2006.889387     Document Type: Article

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