A CMOS RF RMS detector for built-in testing of wireless transceivers

Proceedings of the IEEE VLSI Test Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 249-254

  Valdes Garcia, Alberto ^a   Venkatasubramanian, Radhika ^a   Srinivasan, Rangakrishnan ^a   Silva Martinez, Jose ^a   Sánchez Sinencio, Edgar ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS; HIGH INPUT IMPEDANCE; INPUT CAPACITANCE; POST LAYOUT SIMULATION; RMS DETECTORS; TESTING DEVICE; VOLTAGE AMPLITUDE; WIRELESS TRANSCEIVER;

FAULT DETECTION; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

TRANSCEIVERS;

EID: 84886472708     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VTS.2005.8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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