Tunable high-q N-Path Band-Pass filters: Modeling and verification

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 998-1010

  Ghaffari, Amir ^a   Klumperink, Eric A M ^a   Soer, Michiel C M ^a   Nauta, Bram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Band pass filter; CMOS; cognitive radio; commutated capacitors; frequency translated filter; high linearity; high Q; inductorless filter; linear periodically time variant circuit; LPTV; N path filter; software defined radio; tunable filter

Indexed keywords

BAND PASS; CMOS; COGNITIVE RADIO; COMMUTATED CAPACITORS; FREQUENCY TRANSLATED FILTER; HIGH LINEARITY; HIGH-Q; INDUCTORLESS; LPTV; N-PATH FILTER; PERIODICALLY TIME VARIANT; SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIO; TUNABLE FILTERS;

BANDWIDTH; CAPACITORS; CLOCKS; HIGH PASS FILTERS; RADIO; RADIO RECEIVERS; TIME VARYING CONTROL SYSTEMS;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 79955588718     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2011.2117010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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