Design of CMOS UWB low noise amplifier with cascode feedback

Author

Doh, Heechan ; Jeong, Youngkyun ; Jung, Sungyong ; Joo, Youngjoong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Texas, Arlington, TX, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

25-28 July 2004

Abstract

This paper shows the design of a broadband single-stage single-ended low noise amplifier (LNA) for the frequency range 3GHz to 7GHz using 0.18μm RF CMOS technology. The cascode feedback topology and broadband matching technique were used in the amplifier to achieve broad bandwidth performance and input/output matching characteristics respectively. The effects of feedback resistor on noise figure (NF) and gain were also described. In the operating frequency range, 1.9dB of NF, 15dB of the gain, and 0.8dB of maximum gain flatness were achieved, and the maximum input/output return loss is lower than -1OdB. The total power consumption of the LNA including bias network is 21mW under a 1.8V single supply voltage.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; radiofrequency integrated circuits; wideband amplifiers; 0.18 micron; 1.8 V; 1.9 dB; 15 dB; 21 mW; 3 to 7 GHz; CMOS UWB low-noise amplifier; RF CMOS technology; bias network; broad bandwidth performance; broadband single-stage single-ended low noise amplifier; cascode feedback; feedback resistor; input/output matching; noise figure; power consumption; single supply voltage; Bandwidth; Broadband amplifiers; CMOS technology; Impedance matching; Low-noise amplifiers; Noise measurement; Output feedback; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency amplifiers; Topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2004. MWSCAS '04. The 2004 47th Midwest Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8346-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSCAS.2004.1354240

Filename

1354240