Title :
Design of process variation tolerant radio frequency low noise amplifier
Author :
Sen, Shreyas ; Chatterjee, Abhijit
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept, Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA
Abstract :
Design of a self compensating process variation tolerant RF low noise amplifier (LNA) is described. A novel non-intrusive mixing technique is proposed which enables minimal intrusion negative feedback in RF circuits making them process variation tolerant. The proposed design technique provides 18% yield improvement over comparable conventional LNA under severe process variation.
Keywords :
low noise amplifiers; radiofrequency amplifiers; RF circuit; nonintrusive mixing technique; radio frequency low noise amplifier; Circuit noise; Circuit optimization; Design engineering; Feedback circuits; Low-noise amplifiers; Negative feedback; Noise measurement; Process design; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 2008. ISCAS 2008. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1683-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1684-4
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.2008.4541437
