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Highly Linear Mixer for On-chip RF Test in 130 nm CMOS

Ghulam Mehdi
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The complexity of wireless communication integrated circuits is increasing day by day due to the trend of multifunction and multistandard support as mentioned in this paper. This has not only increased the production cost of...
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The complexity of wireless communication integrated circuits is increasing day by day due to the trend of multifunction and multistandard support. This has not only increased the production cost of ...

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The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits: RF CIRCUITS THROUGH THE AGES

Thomas H. Lee
TL;DR: In this paper, an expanded and thoroughly revised edition of Thomas H. Lee's acclaimed guide to the design of gigahertz RF integrated circuits features a completely new chapter on the principles of wireless systems.
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Fundamental performance limits and scaling of a CMOS passive double-balanced mixer

TL;DR: It is shown that as CMOS process technology evolves, the double-balanced passive mixer architecture will become more favorable and yield improved performance.

Multi-carrier single-DAC transmitter approach applied to digital cable television

TL;DR: This research work analyzes and realizes a new approach of replacing this analog front-end in the transmitter by digital signal processing that upsamples, combines and upconverts the carriers, followed by a single DAC that generates the RF signal without further upconversion.

Highly linear attenuator and mixer for wide band TOR in CMOS

TL;DR: In this article, a highly linear passive attenuator and mixer were designed to be used in a wide-band Transmission Observation Receiver (TOR), which is a low IF receiver that accepts RF frequencies from 2GHz to 7GHz, and produces corresponding IF bandwidths of 280MHz to 990MHz using low side LO injection.
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