A blocker-tolerant, noise-cancelling receiver suitable for wideband wireless applications

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2943-2963

  Murphy, David ^a,b   Darabi, Hooman ^b   Abidi, Asad ^a   Hafez, Amr A ^a   Mirzaei, Ahmad ^b   Mikhemar, Mohyee ^b   Chang, Mau Chung Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BROADCOM CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

blocker; CMOS; linearity; LNA; mixer first; noise cancelling; non overlapping clock generation; oversampling mixer; passive mixer; Receiver; SAW less; single ended; wideband

Indexed keywords

BLOCKER; CLOCK GENERATION; CMOS; LINEARITY; LNA; MIXER-FIRST; NOISE-CANCELLING; OVER SAMPLING; PASSIVE MIXERS; SAW-LESS; SINGLE-ENDED; WIDE-BAND;

MIXERS (MACHINERY); RECEIVERS (CONTAINERS); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MIXING;

EID: 84871658228     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2012.2217832     Document Type: Article

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