Merged power amplifier and mixer circuit topology for radar applications in CMOS

ESSCIRC 2009 - Proceedings of the 35th European Solid-State Circuits Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 300-303

  Issakov, Vadim ^a   Tiebout, Marc ^b   Knapp, Herbert ^c   Cao, Yiqun ^c   Simbürger, Werner ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^b INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG   (Austria)

^c INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT TOPOLOGY; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; CONVERSION LOSS; LOCAL OSCILLATOR SIGNALS; MASS-MARKET APPLICATIONS; MONOSTATIC RADAR; OUTPUT POWER; OUTPUT STAGES; PASSIVE MIXING; RADAR APPLICATIONS; RADIOFREQUENCY SIGNALS;

AMPLIFICATION; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING; POWER AMPLIFIERS; RADAR; RADIO BROADCASTING; TOPOLOGY;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 72849109210     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESSCIRC.2009.5325984     Document Type: Conference Paper

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