Abstract
ndrea Bevilacqua , Member , IEEE,
Stephane Bronckers, Student Member , IEEE, Morin Dehan , Member , IEEE, Maarten Kuijk , Member , IEEE,
Piet Wambacq, Member , IEEE, and Jan Craninckx , Senior Member , IEEE
Abstract—As CMOS scales down and grows more expensive,
area-aware RF front-end design becomes appropriate. A wide-
band front-end is presented that uses an inductorless LNA and
downconversion section up to 6 GHz. Frequency synthesis is re-
alized using a single-inductor dual-band 3.5 and
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