Design of a low-power ZigBee receiver front-end for wireless sensors

Proceedings of the International Conference on Microelectronics, ICM

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 183-186

  Hafez, Amr Amin ^a   Dessouky, Mohamed Amin ^b   Ragai, Hani Fikri ^c  

^a Silicon Vision LLC   (Egypt)

^b MENTOR GRAPHICS CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Universite Francaise d'Egypte   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Direct conversion receiver; Low power; Wireless sensor networks; Zigbee

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; LOW PASS FILTERS; MICROELECTRONICS; SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CHANNEL SELECTIONS; CMOS RECEIVERS; CMOS TECHNOLOGIES; DESIGN AND SIMULATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL OUTPUTS; DIRECT CONVERSION RECEIVER; DOUBLE-BALANCED; DOWN CONVERSIONS; LOW POWER; PASSIVE MIXERS; RECEIVER FRONT ENDS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SINGLE-ENDED INPUTS; VARIABLE GAINS; WIRELESS SENSORS; ZIGBEE; ZIGBEE STANDARDS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 51849144668     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICM.2007.4497689     Document Type: Conference Paper

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