Design of a CMOS Down-Converter for Wireless Applications
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چکیده
Nowadays, it is easy to find radio transceivers having small size, low cost and still offering numerous functionalities. High-integration of radio-frequency (RF) circuits is still the main trend in the development of wireless devices. A down-converter is an essential part of any RF receiver. It basically performs the frequency translation between an incoming RF signal into a lower frequency to be further processed in the digital domain. This work presents a down-converter that is currently being developed in a RF-CMOS technology. The down-converter is designed in AMS-C35 using a single 3.3-V power supply. All the simulations were performed using the Cadence IC software.
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