Design of active N-path filters

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2962-2976

  Darvishi, Milad ^a,b   Van Der Zee, Ronan ^a   Nauta, Bram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

Author keywords

bandpass; BPF; channel select; CMOS; compression point; filter; gyrator; high out of band linearity; IIP3; N path; passive mixer; tunable

Indexed keywords

BAND PASS; BPF; CHANNEL SELECT; COMPRESSION POINTS; FILTER; IIP3; N-PATH; OUT-OF-BAND; PASSIVE MIXERS; TUNABLE;

ACTIVE FILTERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; GYRATORS;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 84889637728     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2013.2285852     Document Type: Article

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