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Oleksiy Klymenko from IHP reviews Impulse Radio Receiver Architectures including coherent & non-coherent impulse detection principles and associated simulation techniques in 0.25 um SiGe C BICMOS UWB receiver. The receiver  includes the analysis and design of passive balun, LNA, variable gain amplifier (VGA), multiplier, differential 4th & 7th order Bessel Low-Pass Filters. Transient time-domain and harmonic balance frequency-domain simulations as well as verification with measurements.

• 8 GHz SiGe UWB Receiver Front-End Design in 0.25 um BICMOS SiGe

Impulse Radio Receiver