Design Techniques of CMOS Ultra-Wide-Band Amplifiers for Multistandard Communications

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 214-218

  Tsang, Tommy K K ^a   Lin, Kuan Yu ^a   El Gamal, Mourad N ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; low noise amplifier (LNA); Ultra wide band (UWB)

Indexed keywords

GAIN CONTROL; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; TOPOLOGY;

COMMON-GATE AMPLIFIER TOPOLOGY; MULTISTANDARD COMMUNICATIONS; ULTRA-WIDE-BAND AMPLIFIERS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 42149178343     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2008.918925     Document Type: Article

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