A fully integrated low-power high-coexistence 2.4-GHz zigbee transceiver for biomedical and healthcare applications

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1879-1889

  Gil, Joonho ^a,b   Kim, Ji Hoon ^a   Kim, Chun Suk ^a   Park, Chulhyun ^a   Park, Jungsu ^a   Park, Hyejin ^a   Lee, Hyeji ^a   Lee, Sung Jae ^a   Jang, Young Ho ^a   Koo, Minsuk ^a,c   Gil, Joon Min ^d   Han, Kwangseok ^e   Kwon, Yong Won ^a   Song, Inho ^a  

^a Radio Pulse Inc   (South Korea)

^b Sensor Division TLi Inc   (South Korea)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Catholic University of Daegu   (South Korea)

^e TeraSquare Inc   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Biomedical; CMOS; coexistence; healthcare; IEEE 802.11; IEEE 802.15.4; interference; transceiver; wireless local area network (WLAN); ZigBee

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; HEALTH CARE; STANDARDS; TRANSCEIVERS; TRANSMITTERS; WAVE INTERFERENCE; ZIGBEE;

BIOMEDICAL; COEXISTENCE; ERROR VECTOR MAGNITUDE; FRACTIONAL-N SYNTHESIZER; HEALTH CARE APPLICATION; IEEE 802.11S; IEEE 802.15.4; TRANSMITTER ARCHITECTURE;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 84906948951     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2014.2342671     Document Type: Article

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