A 400-MHz CMOS radio front-end for ultra low-power medical implantable applications

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 232-235

  Carrara, F ^a   Italia, A ^a   Palmisano, G ^a   Guerra, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS RADIO; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; COMPRESSION POINTS; CONVERSION GAIN; CURRENT CONSUMPTION; DOWN CONVERTERS; INPUT SIGNAL; LO FREQUENCY; LOW POWER; MAXIMUM POWER; OUTPUT POWER; RECEIVE MODE; SATURATED OUTPUT POWER; TRANSMIT-MODE; UP-CONVERTER;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FREQUENCY MODULATION;

FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS;

EID: 72849125460     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESSCIRC.2009.5325972     Document Type: Conference Paper

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