The Blixer, a wideband balun-LNA-I/Q-mixer topology

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2706-2715

  Blaakmeer, Stephan C ^a,b   Klumperink, Eric A M ^a   Leenaerts, Domine M W ^c   Nauta, Bram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b Axiom IC Twente   (Netherlands)

^c NXP SEMICONDUCTORS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; Direct conversion; High linearity mixer; Linearity; Low noise; Low noise amplifiers; Low power electronics; Merged LNA and mixer; Microwave integrated circuits; Microwave receivers; Multi standard; Noise canceling; Zero IF

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; BANDWIDTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LINEARIZATION; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; LUMPED PARAMETER NETWORKS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROWAVES; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING; MOS CAPACITORS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); POWER ELECTRONICS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGY;

DIRECT CONVERSION; HIGH-LINEARITY MIXER; LINEARITY; LOW NOISE; LOW-POWER ELECTRONICS; MERGED LNA AND MIXER; MICROWAVE RECEIVERS; MULTI-STANDARD; NOISE CANCELING; ZERO IF;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 57849093251     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2008.2004866     Document Type: Conference Paper

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