A direct conversion CMOS transceiver for IEEE 802.11a WLANs

Pengfei Zhang, Thai Anh Tuan Nguyen, Candice C. Lam, D. Gambetta, C. Soorapanth, Baohong Cheng, S. Hart, I. Sever, T. Bourdi, A. Tham,

2003 · 57 citations · 3 references

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Abstract

A 0.18μm CMOS transceiver fully compliant with IEEE 802.11a in the U-NII band (5.15 - 5.35GHz) achieves a sensitivity of -69dBm and an EVM of -29.3dB for 64 QAM. Power dissipation is 171 mW in RX and 138mW in TX using a 1.8V supply.

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