Noise and dynamic range of CMOS degenerated active inductor resonators

Author

Szczepkowski, Grzegorz ; Farrell, Ronan

Author_Institution

Center for Telecommun. Value Chain Res., Nat. Univ. of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland

fYear

2009

Firstpage

595

Lastpage

598

Abstract

This paper presents a compensation method of active inductor losses, employing passive gyrator degeneration rather than an external negative impedance converter. Theoretical analysis is confirmed by a comparative simulations of two resonators designed for 434 MHz band, using Eldo RF and Spectre and the UMC 0.18 mum 1P6M process. Presented results show that the proposed loss compensation method achieves comparable noise and large signal performance to a standard active inductor resonator and provides a significant improvement in static power consumption.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; compensation; inductors; integrated circuit noise; resonators; 1P6M process; CMOS degenerated active inductor resonators; bandwidth 434 MHz; compensation method; negative impedance converter; passive gyrator degeneration; power consumption; size 0.18 mum; Active inductors; Active noise reduction; Admittance; Capacitors; Circuits; Dynamic range; Energy consumption; Gyrators; Parasitic capacitance; Resistors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuit Theory and Design, 2009. ECCTD 2009. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Antalya

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3896-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3896-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECCTD.2009.5275052

Filename

5275052