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CMOS RF Circuits for Wireless Applications

  1. This paper presents circuit techniques and power supply partitioning, filtering, and regulation methods aimed at reducing the phase noise and spurious tones in frequency synthesizers operating in large mixed a...

    Authors: Adrian Maxim
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:024853
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  2. As more broadband wireless standards are introduced and ratified, the complexity of wireless communication systems increases, which necessitates extra care and vigilance in their design. In this paper, various...

    Authors: Pedram Sameni, Chris Siu, Shahriar Mirabbasi, Hormoz Djahanshahi, Marwa Hamour, Krzysztof Iniewski and Jatinder Chana
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:093712
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  4. We present a discrete-time second-order multibit sigma-delta ADC that filters and decimates by two the input data samples. At the same time it provides gain control function in its input sampling stage. A 4-ta...

    Authors: Jinseok Koh, Gabriel Gomez, Khurram Muhammad, R. Bogdan Staszewski and Baher Haroun
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:071249
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  5. The possible role of customized MOS varactors in amplification, mixing, and frequency control of future millimeter wave CMOS RFICs is outlined. First, the parametric conversion concept is revisited and discuss...

    Authors: Howard Chan, Zhongbo Chen, Sebastian Magierowski and Krzysztof (Kris) Iniewski
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:012945
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  6. A MEMS capacitive switch suitable for use in tunable RF amplifiers is described. A MEMS switch is designed, fabricated, and characterized with physical and RF measurements for inclusion in simulations. Using t...

    Authors: John Danson, Calvin Plett and Niall Tait
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:016518
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  7. This paper examines error control coding (ECC) use in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to determine the energy efficiency of specific ECC implementations in WSNs. ECC provides coding gain, resulting in transmit...

    Authors: Sheryl L. Howard, Christian Schlegel, Kris Iniewski and Kris Iniewski
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:074812
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  8. Ultra-wideband (UWB) is an emerging broadband wireless technology enabling data rates up to http://static-content.springer.com/image/art%3A10.1155%2FWCN%2F2006%2F43917/MediaObjects/13638_2005_Article_1234_IEq1_HTML.gif Mbps. This paper provides an overview of recent desi...

    Authors: D. M. W. Leenaerts
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:043917
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  9. This paper offers a review of simulation methods currently available for the transient and steady-state analysis of nonlinear RF and microwave circuits. The most general method continues to be the time-marchin...

    Authors: Lei (Lana) Zhu and Carlos E Christoffersen
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:032097
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  10. RF circuits for multi-GHz frequencies have recently migrated to low-cost digital deep-submicron CMOS processes. Unfortunately, this process environment, which is optimized only for digital logic and SRAM memor...

    Authors: Yo-Chuol Ho, Robert Bogdan Staszewski, Khurram Muhammad, Chih-Ming Hung, Dirk Leipold and Kenneth Maggio
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:062905
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  11. There are several new radio systems which exploit novel strategies being made possible by the regulatory agencies to increase the availability of spectrum for wireless applications. Three of these that will be...

    Authors: Danijela Cabric, Mike SW Chen, David A Sobel, Stanley Wang, Jing Yang and Robert W Brodersen
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:017957
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  12. This paper describes the design and optimization of an RF tunable network capable of matching highly mismatched loads to 50 http://static-content.springer.com/image/art%3A10.1155%2FWCN%2F2006%2F86531/MediaObjects/13638_2005_Article_1281_IEq1_HTML.gif at 1.9 GHz. Tuning w...

    Authors: Ahmad Chamseddine, James W. Haslett and Michal Okoniewski
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:086531
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