A 40 nm CMOS 0.46 GHz receiver resilient to out-of-band blockers

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1659-1671

  Borremans, Jonathan ^a   Mandal, Gunjan ^a   Giannini, Vito ^a   Debaillie, Bjorn ^a   Ingels, Mark ^a   Sano, Tomohiro ^b   Verbruggen, Bob ^a   Craninckx, Jan ^a  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b RENESAS TECHNOLOGY CORP   (Japan)

Author keywords

40 nm; blocker; CMOS; filter; filtering; interference; linearity; LNA; low area; low noise mplifier; mixer; mixer first; passive; Receiver; resilience; voltage sampling; wideband

Indexed keywords

40 NM; BLOCKER; CMOS; FILTER; LINEARITY; LNA; LOW NOISE; LOW-AREA; MIXER; MIXER-FIRST; PASSIVE; RESILIENCE; WIDE-BAND;

FILTRATION; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS;

MIXERS (MACHINERY);

EID: 79959745218     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2011.2144110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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