Analysis of imperfections on performance of 4-phase passive-mixer-based high-Q bandpass filters in SAW-less receivers

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 879-892

  Mirzaei, Ahmad ^a   Darabi, Hooman ^a  

^a BROADCOM CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandpass filter; impedance transformation; N path filter; receiver; SAW less

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE FILTERS; CLOCKS; PASSIVE FILTERS; PHASE NOISE; RECEIVERS (CONTAINERS); SWITCHED FILTERS; THERMAL NOISE;

CLOCK PHASE; CLOCK PHASIS; IMPEDANCE TRANSFORMATION; MOS SWITCHES; OUT OF BAND; PASSIVE MIXERS; SA WFILTER; SECOND ORDERS;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 79955524033     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2010.2089555     Document Type: Article

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