Inductive ESD protection for narrow band and ultra-wideband CMOS low noise amplifiers

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3920-3923

  Yanjie, Wang ^a   Anthony, Ho ^a   Iniewski, Kris ^a   Gaudet, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; PHASE NOISE;

ESD PROTECTION; POST LAYOUT SIMULATIONS; POWER GAIN;

LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34548859258     PISSN: 02714310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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