Low-power 1V 5.8 GHz bulk-driven mixer with on-chip balun in 0.18μm CMOS

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 197-200

  Van Vorst, Daryl ^a   Mirabbasi, Shahriar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body effect; Bulk driven; CMOS; Low voltage; Mixer; Transformer balun

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING; RADIO WAVES;

BODY EFFECT; BULK-DRIVEN; CMOS; DOWN-CONVERSION MIXERS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING; ISM BANDS; LOW POWERS; LOW-VOLTAGE; MIXER; ON CHIPS; RADIO FREQUENCY INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RF ISOLATION; RF SIGNALS; TRANSFORMER BALUN;

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 51849139116     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561417     Document Type: Conference Paper

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