Widely tunable 4th order switched gm-C band-pass filter based on N-path filters

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3105-3119

  Darvishi, Milad ^a   Van Der Zee, Ronan ^a   Klumperink, Eric A M ^a   Nauta, Bram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bandpass filter (BPF); complex baseband impedance; g m C; high Q; impedance transformation; N path; passive mixer; shifting the center frequency; subtraction; tunable

Indexed keywords

BASEBAND IMPEDANCE; CENTER FREQUENCY; G M-C; HIGH-Q; IMPEDANCE TRANSFORMATION; N-PATH; PASSIVE MIXERS; SUBTRACTION; TUNABLE;

BANDPASS FILTERS; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; LOADING; MIXERS (MACHINERY); PASSIVE FILTERS;

ACTIVE FILTERS;

EID: 84871820139     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2012.2225542     Document Type: Article

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