3.6mW, 30dB gain preamplifiers for an FM-UWB receiver

Proceedings of the IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 216-219

  Zhao, Yi ^a   Van Veenendaal, Gerrit ^b   Bonakdar, Hamid ^b   Gerrits, John F M ^a   Long, John R ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b NXP SEMICONDUCTORS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

FM UWB; High band ultrawideband; High gain low power preamplifier; Low data rate; SiGe:C BiCMOS technology; Wireless personal area networking

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); BROADBAND NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); RADIO RECEIVERS; SEMICONDUCTING GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SILICON ALLOYS; TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

FM-UWB; HIGH-BAND ULTRAWIDEBAND; HIGH-GAIN LOW-POWER PREAMPLIFIER; LOW DATA RATE; SIGE:C-BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORKING;

BICMOS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 57949085566     PISSN: 10889299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIPOL.2008.4662747     Document Type: Conference Paper

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