A reconfigurable sliding-IF transceiver for 400 MHz/2.4 GHz IEEE 802.15.6/ZigBee WBAN hubs with only 21% tuning range VCO

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2705-2716

  Zhang, Lingwei ^a   Jiang, Hanjun ^a   Wei, Jianjun ^a   Dong, Jingjing ^a   Li, Fule ^a   Li, Weitao ^a   Gao, Jia ^a   Cui, Jianwei ^b   Chi, Baoyong ^a   Zhang, Chun ^a   Wang, Zhihua ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

802.15.6; CMOS integrated circuits; low power; reconfigurable; transceiver; WBAN

Indexed keywords

802.15.6; INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCIES; LOW POWER; LOW-POWER TRANSCEIVER; RECEIVER SENSITIVITY; RECONFIGURABLE; WBAN; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK;

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); TRANSCEIVERS; TUNING; ZIGBEE;

RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURES;

EID: 84887320593     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2013.2274893     Document Type: Article

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