An Ultra WideBand (UWB) mixer with 0.18UM RF CMOS technology

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 697-700

  Motieifar, Alireza ^a   Pour, Zahra Allahgholi ^a   Bridges, Greg ^a   Shafai, Cyrus ^a   Shafai, Lotfollah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

CMOS; Impedance matching; Mixer; Ultra WideBand; UWB

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; LINEARIZATION; TRANSCEIVERS;

ULTRA WIDEBAND; WIDEBAND MATCHING;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 39049126854     PISSN: 08407789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCECE.2006.277435     Document Type: Conference Paper

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