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Effect of Front-End Imperfections on Wideband Millimeter-Wave Signals

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Digitally Assisted, Fully Integrated, Wideband Transmitters for High-Speed Millimeter-Wave Wireless Communication Links

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This chapter will discuss the main impairments that affect the performance of wideband, high-speed mmW transceivers. Each impairment will be first introduced theoretically, and then its effect on a wideband mmW transceiver will be analyzed at system level. Numerical examples correspond to a reference E-band wideband transceiver, implemented using an FPGA for the baseband processing, commercial off-the-shelf DACs and baseband components, and specifically designed BiCMOS integrated circuits for the IF and mmW front-end blocks.

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    David del Rio, Ainhoa Rezola, Juan F. Sevillano & Igone Velez

  2. Tecnun-University of Navarra, Donostia, Spain

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del Rio, D., Rezola, A., Sevillano, J.F., Velez, I., Berenguer, R. (2019). Effect of Front-End Imperfections on Wideband Millimeter-Wave Signals. In: Digitally Assisted, Fully Integrated, Wideband Transmitters for High-Speed Millimeter-Wave Wireless Communication Links. Analog Circuits and Signal Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93281-1_3

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