A compact wideband front-end using a single-inductor dual-band VCO in 90 nm digital CMOS

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2693-2705

  Borremans, Jonathan ^a   Bevilacqua, Andrea ^b   Bronckers, Stephane ^c   Dehan, Morin ^c   Kuijk, Maarten ^c   Wambacq, Piet ^c   Craninckx, Jan ^c  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

CMOS; Dual band; Low noise amplifier (LNA); Voltage controlled amplifier (VCO); Wideband

Indexed keywords

AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PHASE NOISE; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

CMOS; DUAL-BAND; LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIER (LNA); VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED AMPLIFIER (VCO); WIDEBAND;

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 57849090617     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2008.2004865     Document Type: Conference Paper

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