A low-power single-weight-combiner 802.11abg SoC in 0.13 μm CMOS for embedded applications utilizing an area and power efficient Cartesian phase shifter and mixer circuit

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1101-1114

  Afsahi, Ali ^a,b   Rael, Jacob J ^a,b   Behzad, Arya ^a,b   Chien, Hung Ming ^a,b   Pan, Michael ^b   Au, Stephen ^b   Ojo, Adedayo ^b   Lee, C Paul ^b   Anand, Seema Butala ^b   Chien, Kevin ^b   Wu, Stephen ^b   Roufoogaran, Rozi ^b   Zolfaghari, Alireza ^a,b   Leete, John C ^a,b   Tran, Long ^b   Carter, Keith A ^b   Nariman, Mohammad ^a,b   Yeung, Keno Wai Ki ^b   Morton, Walter ^b   Gonikberg, Mark ^a,b   Seth, Mukul ^b   Forbes, Marcellus ^b   Pattin, Jay ^b   Gutierrez, Luis ^b   Ranganathan, Sumant ^a,b   Li, Ning ^b   Blecker, Eric ^b   Lin, Jack ^a,b   Kwan, Tom ^b   Zhu, Rose ^b   Chambers, Mark ^b   Rofougaran, Maryam ^a,b   Rofougaran, Ahmadreza ^a,b   Trachewsky, Jason ^a,b   Van Rooyen, Pieter ^b,c   more..

^a IEEE

^b BROADCOM CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Fulgeo Technologies

Author keywords

Adaptive control; Auto calibrated radio; Beamforming; Cartesian phase shifter; CMOS; CMOS analog integrated circuits; Frequency synthesizers; Low power WLAN SOC; Maximum ratio combiner (MRC); Mixed analog digital integrated circuits; Wireless LAN

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; PHASE SHIFTERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

CARTESIAN PHASE SHIFTERS; LOW-POWER WLAN SOC; MAXIMUM RATIO COMBINER (MRC);

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 42649129027     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2008.920338     Document Type: Conference Paper

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