A wideband receiver with resonant multi-phase LO and current reuse harmonic rejection baseband

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1188-1198

  Andrews, Caroline ^a   Diamente, Luke ^a   Yang, Dong ^a   Johnson, Ben ^a   Molnar, Alyosha ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Harmonic mixing; Harmonic rejection; Mixer; Multi phase; Multi phase clock; Out of band interference; Passive mixer; Receiver; SAW less; Software defined radio (SDR); Switching receiver; Wideband receiver

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC MIXING; HARMONIC REJECTION; MULTI-PHASE; OUT-OF-BAND INTERFERENCES; PASSIVE MIXERS; SAW-LESS; SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS; WIDEBAND RECEIVERS;

CLOCKS; FILTER BANKS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); PULSE GENERATORS; RADIO BROADCASTING; RECEIVERS (CONTAINERS);

SOFTWARE RADIO;

EID: 84893017956     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2013.2254535     Document Type: Article

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