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A 0.5–20GHz quadrature downconverter

Bardin et al., 2008

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2954439327350224866
Author
Bardin J
Weinreb S
Publication year
Publication venue
2008 IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting

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A quadrature downconverter with 4 GHz IF bandwidth and working over the 0.5-20 GHz RF frequency range has been designed, fabricated, and tested. The downconverter uses a frequency doubling and dividing scheme to generate quadrature local oscillator signals from …
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