Analysis of direct-conversion IQ transmitters with 25% duty-cycle passive mixers

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2318-2331

  Mirzaei, Ahmad ^a   Murphy, David ^a   Darabi, Hooman ^a  

^a BROADCOM CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

25 duty cycle; Direct conversion; linearity; noise; passive mixer; transfer function; transmitter

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; TRANSMITTERS;

DIRECT CONVERSION; DUTY-CYCLE; LINEARITY; NOISE; PASSIVE MIXERS;

MIXERS (MACHINERY);

EID: 80053475840     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2011.2142790     Document Type: Article

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