Circuit-level nonlinear/EM co-simulation and co-design of UWB receivers

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 425-429

  Costanzo, Alessandra ^a   Mastri, Franco ^a   Masotti, Diego ^a   Rizzoli, Vittorio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Co simulation; full wave EM analysis; Harmonic Balance; IR UWB; nonlinear front end

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BROADBAND NETWORKS; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; RADIO RECEIVERS;

COSIMULATION; FULL WAVES; HARMONIC BALANCE; IR-UWB; NONLINEAR FRONT-END;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 82455220970     PISSN: 21626588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICUWB.2011.6058878     Document Type: Conference Paper

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