A switchable-order Gm-C baseband filter with wide digital tuning for configurable radio receivers

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1513-1521

  Chamla, David ^b   Kaiser, Andreas ^a,c   Cathelin, Andreia ^b   Belot, Didier ^b  

^a IEEE

^b STMICROELECTRONICS   (France)

^c Institut Superieur de l'Electronique et du Numerique   (France)

Author keywords

Baseband continuous time filter; Configurable Gm C filter; Multimode radio receivers; On chip automatic tuning; Tunable triode linear transconductor

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RADIO RECEIVERS; TRANSCONDUCTANCE; WAVE FILTERS;

BASEBAND CONTINUOUS TIME FILTERS; CONFIGURABLE GM-C FILTER; MULTIMODE RADIO RECEIVERS; ON-CHIP AUTOMATIC TUNING; TUNABLE TRIODE LINEAR TRANSCONDUCTORS;

TUNING;

EID: 34347268368     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2007.899125     Document Type: Conference Paper

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