GAIN CONTROL AND LINEARITY IMPROVEMENT FOR LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS IN 5GHZ DIRECT CONVERSION RECEIVERS

The members of the Committee appointed to examine the thesis of MALLESH RAJASHEKHARAIAH find it satisfactory and recommend that it be accepted. ___________________________________ Chair ___________________________________ ___________________________________ iii ACKNOWLEDGMENT This project was funded by the NSF Center for Design of Analog-Digital Integrated Circuits (www.eecs.wsu.edu/~cdadic) and I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to CDADIC for the same. I would like to acknowledge the support and guidance received from my advisor Dr Heo, who made all this possible. Thanks are due also to my team member and friend, Parag Upadhyaya for all the learning and continued support which has thoroughly helped me in my program. I would also like to express my deep sense of gratitude to Prof. George LaRue for all the support he has provided in several ways, be it some problem in the testing lab, software tools or the regular dose of laughter the year round! Thanks to all my thesis committee members, Prof. Also, thanks to Jeff Dykstra of Motorola and Matt Miller of Freescale Semiconductor for their valuable suggestions and guidance during the course of the project. Special mention about Alaina McCully and Joanne Buteau for their administrative support. Thanks to Mark Fuller also, for support with the measurements.

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