A 35-GHz UWB front-end for low-data rate WPANs in 90-nm CMOS

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 854-865

  Cavallaro, Marco ^a   Sapone, Giuseppina ^a   Giarrizzo, Guido ^b   Italia, Alessandro ^a   Palmisano, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b STMicroelectronincs   (Italy)

Author keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; Low power circuits; Transceivers; Ultra wideband (UWB); UWB pulse generators; Wireless personal area networks (WPANs)

Indexed keywords

LOW-POWER CIRCUIT; LOW-POWER CIRCUITS; UWB PULSE GENERATOR; WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORKS; WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORKS (WPANS);

AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LUMPED PARAMETER NETWORKS; MODULATION; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PULSE GENERATORS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; TRANSCEIVERS; TRANSMITTERS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 77951205337     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2042653     Document Type: Article

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