A sub-3dB NF voltage-sampling front-end with +18dBm IIP3 and +2dBm blocker compression point

ESSCIRC 2010 - 36th European Solid State Circuits Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 402-405

  Borremans, J ^a   Mandal, G ^a   Debaillie, B ^a   Giannini, V ^a   Craninckx, J ^a  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION POINTS; CURRENT CONSUMPTION; DIGITAL CMOS; LO GENERATION; OUT-OF-BAND; PASSIVE MIXERS; RF FRONT END;

EID: 78650377726     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESSCIRC.2010.5619728     Document Type: Conference Paper

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