A 65 nm CMOS quad-band SAW-less receiver SoC for GSM/GPRS/EDGE

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 950-964

  Mirzaei, Ahmad ^a   Darabi, Hooman ^a   Yazdi, Ahmad ^a   Zhou, Zhimin ^a   Chang, Ethan ^a   Suri, Puneet ^a  

^a BROADCOM CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandpass filter; CMOS; GSM; impedance transformation; N path filtering; receiver; SAW less

Indexed keywords

CMOS; GSM; IMPEDANCE TRANSFORMATION; N-PATH FILTERING; RECEIVER;

BANDPASS FILTERS; MOS CAPACITORS; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; VLSI CIRCUITS;

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE FILTERS;

EID: 79953184250     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2011.2109570     Document Type: Article

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