A 2229-GHz UWB pulse-radar receiver front-end in 0.18-μm CMOS

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1903-1914

  Jain, Vipul ^a   Sundararaman, Sriramkumar ^b   Heydari, Payam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BROADCOM CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS; Direct conversion receiver (RX); Integrated circuits; Low noise amplifier (LNA); Pulse radar; Quadrature voltage controlled oscillator (QVCO); Ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

CMOS; DIRECT-CONVERSION RECEIVER (RX); LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIER (LNA); PULSE RADAR; QUADRATURE VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR (QVCO);

AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; AUTOMOBILE EXHIBITIONS; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADAR RECEIVERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 69249215117     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2009.2025420     Document Type: Article

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