CMOS UWB multiplier

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 570-574

  Mincica, Martina ^a,b   Pepe, Domenico ^b   Zito, Domenico ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

CMOS; multiplier; radar; radio frequency (RF) integrated circuit; ultrawideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); MOSFET DEVICES; NOISE FIGURE; RADAR; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

ANALOG MULTIPLIERS; DIFFERENTIAL PAIRS; FULLY DIFFERENTIAL; INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCIES; MULTIPLIER; RADIO FREQUENCY INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; WIDEBAND IMPEDANCE MATCHING; WIDEBAND OPERATION;

FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS;

EID: 80052909420     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2011.2161175     Document Type: Article

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