A low-power WCDMA transmitter with an integrated notch filter

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2868-2881

  Mirzaei, Ahmad ^a   Darabi, Hooman ^a  

^a BROADCOM CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Feedback; IF frequency translation; Local oscillator; Mixer; Noise; Phase noise; Quadrature error; Receiver; SAW filter; Stability; Transmitter; WCDMA

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; MIXERS (MACHINERY); PHASE STABILITY; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); TRANSMITTERS;

IF FREQUENCY TRANSLATION; LOCAL OSCILLATOR; MIXER; NOISE; PHASE-NOISE; QUADRATURE ERROR; RECEIVER; SAW FILTER; WCDMA;

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE FILTERS;

EID: 57849147331     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2008.2005698     Document Type: Conference Paper

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