A 2.4 GHz reference-less receiver for 1 Mbps QPSK demodulation

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 505-514

  Chen, Wei Zen ^a   Lu, Tai You ^a   Ou, Wei Wen ^a   Chou, Shun Tien ^a   Yang, Song Yu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Body area network (BAN); Carrier recovery; Demodulator; QPSK; Reference less; Wireless receiver

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL OSCILLATORS; DEMODULATION; DEMODULATORS; MICROWAVE DEMODULATORS; MIXER CIRCUITS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHASE NOISE; QUADRATURE PHASE SHIFT KEYING; RECOVERY; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

BODY AREA NETWORKS; CARRIER RECOVERY; DATA DEMODULATION; DIGITAL DEMODULATORS; QPSK DEMODULATION; REFERENCE-LESS; TOTAL POWER CONSUMPTION; WIRELESS RECEIVERS;

LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 84898072315     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2011.2165417     Document Type: Article

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