Frequency synthesis for a low-power 2.4 GHz receiver using a BAW oscillator and a relaxation oscillator

ESSCIRC 2007 - Proceedings of the 33rd European Solid-State Circuits Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 492-495

  Chabloz, Jeremie ^a   Ruffieux, David ^a   Vouilloz, Alexandre ^a   Tortori, Paola ^a   Pengg, Franz ^a   Müller, Claude ^a   Enz, Christian ^a  

^a CSEM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; HETERODYNING; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

BULK ACOUSTIC WAVE (BAW); EUROPEAN; FREQUENCY SYNTHESIS; HETERODYNE RECEIVERS; HIGH-Q FACTOR; LARGE TUNING RANGE; LOCAL OSCILLATORS (LO); LOW POWERS; MULTIPLE CHANNELS; SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS CONFERENCE;

RELAXATION OSCILLATORS;

EID: 44849097628     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESSCIRC.2007.4430349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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