On the design of a programmable-gain amplifier with built-In compact DC-Offset cancellers for very low-voltage WLAN systems

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 496-509

  Mak, Pui In ^a   U, Seng Pan ^a,b   Martins, Rui P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^b Chipidea Microelectrronics (Macao) Limited   (Macao)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

CMOS; Constant bandwidth (BW); dc offset canceller (DOC); Low voltage (LV); Programmable gain amplifier (PGA); Transient; Wireless local area network (WLAN)

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FEEDBACK AMPLIFIERS; GAIN CONTROL; RESISTORS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

CONSTANT BANDWIDTH; EMBEDDED PROGRAMMABLE-GAIN AMPLIFIER; SWITCHED-CURRENT-RESISTOR (SCR);

SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 43049179728     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2007.910643     Document Type: Article

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