A low power BAW resonator based 2.4-GHz receiver with bandwidth tunable channel selection filter at RF

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1343-1356

  Heragu, Aravind ^a   Ruffieux, David ^a   Enz, Christian ^b  

^a CSEM   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Analog decimator; BAW resonator; biomedical telemetry; decimation; FIR; IIR; MEMS; super high IF; switched capacitor circuits; wireless body area networks (WBAN)

Indexed keywords

ANALOG DECIMATOR; BAW RESONATOR; BIOMEDICAL TELEMETRY; DECIMATION; FIR; IIR; SUPER-HIGH IF; SWITCHED -CAPACITOR CIRCUITS; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK;

BANDPASS FILTERS; BANDWIDTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MEMS;

RESONATORS;

EID: 84878411642     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2013.2253411     Document Type: Article

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