UWB 3.1-10.6 GHz CMOS transmitter for system-on-a-chip nano-power pulse radars

Proceedings of the 2007 Ph.D Research in Microelectronics and Electronics conference, PRIME 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 189-192

  Zito, Fabio ^a   Zito, Domenico ^b   Pepe, Domenico ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DETECTORS; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROELECTRONICS; PULSE CIRCUITS; RADAR; RADAR SYSTEMS; SIGNAL GENERATORS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TRANSMITTERS;

BUILDING BLOCKS; DELAY TIMES; DURATION TIME; FULLY INTEGRATED; MICRO-CONTROLLER; MONOCYCLE PULSES; PEAK AMPLITUDES; PROGRAMMABLE DELAY; PULSE RADARS; SYSTEM-ON-A-CHIP (RSOC); UWB PULSE GENERATORS;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 47349131279     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RME.2007.4401844     Document Type: Conference Paper

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