An RF-to-BB-current-reuse wideband receiver with parallel N-path active/passive mixers and a single-MOS pole-zero LPF

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2547-2559

  Lin, Fujian ^a   Mak, Pui In ^a,b   Martins, Rui P ^c  

^a China   (Macao)

^b UMTEC ^*  (Macao)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Active mixer; bandpass filtering; baseband (BB); biasing; current reuse; frequency translation; harmonic rejection ratio; harmonic recombination; linearity; N path; noise cancelling; noise figure; out of band linearity; passive mixer; pole zero low pass filter; power dissipation; radio frequency (RF); receiver

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION; RECEIVERS (CONTAINERS);

ACTIVE MIXERS; BAND PASS FILTERING; BASEBANDS; BIASING; CURRENT REUSE; HARMONIC REJECTION RATIOS; HARMONIC-RECOMBINATION; LINEARITY; NOISE CANCELLING; OUT-OF-BAND; PASSIVE MIXERS; RADIO FREQUENCIES;

NOISE FIGURE;

EID: 84908455553     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2014.2354647     Document Type: Article

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