A short range, low data rate, 7.2 GHz-7.7 GHz FM-UWB receiver front-end

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1872-1882

  Zhao, Yi ^a   Dong, Yunzhi ^b   Gerrits, John F M ^c   Van Veenendaal, Gerrit ^d   Long, John R ^a   Farserotu, John R ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c CSEM   (Switzerland)

^d NXP SEMICONDUCTORS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

FM UWB; Frequency modulation (FM); IEEE standardization; Multi user capacity; Ultra wideband (UWB) RF receiver front end; Voltage RF preamplifier; Wideband FM demodulator

Indexed keywords

FM-UWB; IEEE STANDARDIZATION; MULTI-USER CAPACITY; VOLTAGE RF PREAMPLIFIER; WIDEBAND FM DEMODULATOR;

DEMODULATORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FREQUENCY MODULATION; RADIO RECEIVERS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; STANDARDIZATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 67651156074     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2020225     Document Type: Article

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