Impedance, filtering and noise in N-phase passive CMOS mixers

Proceedings of the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Molnar, Alyosha ^a   Andrews, Caroline ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

harmonic rejection; mixer; multi phase; multiphase clock; out of band interference; passive mixer; receiver

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC REJECTION; MULTI-PHASE; MULTIPHASE CLOCK; OUT-OF-BAND; PASSIVE MIXERS;

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RECEIVERS (CONTAINERS);

MIXERS (MACHINERY);

EID: 84869423170     PISSN: 08865930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CICC.2012.6330616     Document Type: Conference Paper

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