A low-power fully monolithic subthreshold CMOS receiver with integrated LO generation for 2.4 GHz wireless PAN applications

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2229-2238

  Perumana, Bevin George ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Rajarshi ^b   Chakraborty, Sudipto ^b   Lee, Chang Ho ^c   Laskar, Joy ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^c Samsung Design Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Low power RF front ends; Metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs); Weak inversion; Wireless personal area networks

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MOSFET DEVICES; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SENSOR NETWORKS; TRANSISTORS; VOLTAGE REGULATORS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

APPLICATIONS.; BOOSTING; CMOS PROCESSES; CROSS-COUPLING; CURRENT REUSES; LOW-POWER; LOW-POWER RF FRONT-ENDS; PASSIVE VOLTAGES; QUADRATURE MIXERS; QUADRATURE VCO; STACKING; SUBTHRESHOLD; SUBTHRESHOLD CMOS; SUBTHRESHOLD OPERATIONS; SUBTHRESHOLD REGIONS; TOTAL POWER CONSUMPTIONS; TOTAL POWERS; VARIABLE GAINS; WEAK INVERSION; WIRELESS PANS; WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORKS;

LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 54049152456     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2008.2004330     Document Type: Conference Paper

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