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Since several years research has been carried out on the design of RF circuits in CMOS technologies. Since then, the usability of CMOS for RF design has been demonstrated by several research groups. However, there are still some fundamental problems and limitations which may not be overlooked. The purpose of this work is to present some of those ‘untold pitfalls’ in the design of RF CMOS circuits for fully integrated transceivers for telecommunication applications.
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Steyaert, M., Borremans, M., Craninckx, J., Crols, J., Janssens, J., Kinget, P. (2001). RF CMOS Design, Some Untold Pitfalls. In: Sansen, W., van de Plassche, R.J., Huijsing, J.H. (eds) Analog Circuit Design. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1443-1_4
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