All-digital outphasing modulator for a software-defined transmitter

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1260-1271

  Heidari, Mohammad E ^a   Lee, Minjae ^a   Abidi, Asad A ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitive transformer; Digitally controlled oscillator; Dynamic range; GSM; Noise shaping; Out of band emission; Outphasing; Phase rotation; Quantization noise; Time to digital converter; Transmitter; WCDMA

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; DELAY CIRCUITS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; IMAGE CODING; MODULATION; RADIO BROADCASTING; ROTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSMITTERS;

CAPACITIVE TRANSFORMER; DIGITALLY-CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR; DYNAMIC RANGE; GSM; NOISE SHAPING; OUT-OF-BAND EMISSION; OUTPHASING; PHASE ROTATION; QUANTIZATION NOISE; TIME-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER; WCDMA;

DIGITAL RADIO;

EID: 63449105312     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2014729     Document Type: Conference Paper

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