Baseband Analog Circuits for Software Defined Radio

Analog Circuits and Signal Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-143

  Giannini, Vito ^a  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

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EID: 85145738010     PISSN: 1872082X     EISSN: 21971854     Source Type: Book Series    
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