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A high IIP2 mixer enhanced by a new calibration technique for zero-IF receivers

Vahidfar et al., 2008

Document ID
18222202982673570454
Author
Vahidfar M
Shoaei O
Publication year
Publication venue
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

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The second-order intercept point (IP2) performance of direct conversion receivers is limited by the second-order nonlinearity of the mixer. A new technique which is based on calibrating mixer by injecting a programmable nonlinear current into the mixer output is introduced in …
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