A 240-MHz low-pass filter with variable gain in 65-nm CMOS for a UWB radio receiver

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1488-1499

  Saari, Ville ^a   Kaltiokallio, Mikko ^a   Lindfors, Saska ^a,b   Ryynänen, Jussi ^a   Halonen, Kari A I ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog integrated circuits; CMOS; Continuous time filters; Direct conversion receiver

Indexed keywords

ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; RADIO RECEIVERS; TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

CONTINUOUS-TIME FILTERS; DIRECT CONVERSION RECEIVERS; MULTI-BAND ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; NEGATIVE RESISTANCE CIRCUITS; SECOND ORDER INTERMODULATION; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; THIRD ORDER INTERMODULATION; ULTRA-WIDEBAND RADIO;

LOW PASS FILTERS;

EID: 67651151525     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2008.2006213     Document Type: Article

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