Analysis and design of an integrated notch filter for the rejection of interference in UWB systems

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 331-343

  Vallese, Alessio ^a,b   Bevilacqua, Andrea ^a   Sandner, Christoph ^c   Tiebout, Marc ^c   Gerosa, Andrea ^a   Neviani, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Canova Tech Srl   (Italy)

^c INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Impedance matching; Interference rejection; Low noise amplifier; Monolithic transformer; Notch filter; UWB; WLAN

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; NOTCH FILTERS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TUNING; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

IMPEDANCE MATCHING; INTERFERENCE REJECTION; LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIER; MONOLITHIC TRANSFORMER; NOTCH FILTER; UWB; WLAN;

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

EID: 59349083858     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2008.2010984     Document Type: Article

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