A broadband CMOS amplitude detector for on-chip RF measurements

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1470-1477

  Valdes Garcia, Alberto ^a,b   Venkatasubramanian, Radhika ^c,d   Silva Martinez, Jose ^a   Sánchez Sinencio, Edgar ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^d ON SEMICONDUCTOR   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplitude detector; Built in self test (BIST); CMOS radio frequency (RF) circuits; Full wave rectifier; RF test

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE DETECTOR; BUILT-IN SELF-TEST (BIST); CMOS RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) CIRCUITS; FULL-WAVE RECTIFIER; RF TEST;

AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; DETECTORS; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; RADIO; RADIO WAVES;

BUILT-IN SELF TEST;

EID: 62949097780     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.917196     Document Type: Article

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