Design of a high performance 2-GHz direct-conversion front-end with a single-ended RF input in 0.13 μ m CMOS

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1380-1390

  Feng, Yiping ^a   Takemura, Gaku ^b   Kawaguchi, Shunji ^b   Kinget, Peter ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Balun; Low noise amplifier (LNA); Mixer; Noise figure (NF); Second order input intercept point (IIP2); WCDMA

Indexed keywords

BALUN; LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIER (LNA); MIXER; SECOND-ORDER INPUT INTERCEPT POINT (IIP2); WCDMA;

LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; MIXER CIRCUITS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING; NOISE FIGURE; SWITCHING;

AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 66149181798     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2015824     Document Type: Conference Paper

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