A low power folded RF front-end with merged LNA and mixer for ZigBee/bluetooth

Proceedings - 2007 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, RWS

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 85-86

  Hwang, Yong Seok ^a   Yoo, Hyung Joun ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Current reuse; Folded technique; Low flicker noise; Low power; RF front end

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BLUETOOTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

CURRENT REUSE; LOW FLICKER NOISE; NARROW BANDWIDTH SYSTEMS;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 34548140206     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RWS.2007.351737     Document Type: Conference Paper

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