A low-power, wide-range variable gain CMOS RF transmitter for 900 MHz wireless communications

Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 177-183

  Nguyen, Trung Kien ^a  

^a Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

CMOS; Driver amplifier; Low power; Transmitter; Variable gain

Indexed keywords

900 MHZ; CMOS DRIVER; CMOS RF; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; CONVERSION GAIN; DRIVER AMPLIFIER; FOLDED-CASCODE; GATE-SOURCE CAPACITORS; HIGH LINEARITY; LINEAR GAIN; LINEARITY ERRORS; LOW POWER; LOW-POWER DISSIPATION; LOW-POWER TRANSMITTERS; MEASURED RESULTS; RF TRANSMITTER; TRANSCONDUCTANCE STAGE; UP-CONVERSION MIXERS; VARIABLE GAIN; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LINEARIZATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

TRANSMITTERS;

EID: 77953362060     PISSN: 09251030     EISSN: 15731979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10470-009-9406-7     Document Type: Article

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