A low-power-consumption linear-in-dB CMOS VGA

Author

Ya-Fen Ge ; Kui Zhang ; Si-Heng Zhu ; Sheng-Xu Wang ; Yong Liu ; Li-Ming Si ; Xin Lv

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Beijing Inst. of Technol., Beijing, China

fYear

2013

fDate

25-28 Aug. 2013

Firstpage

274

Lastpage

276

Abstract

This paper presents a low-power and small-size variable gain amplifier (VGA) which consumes only 1.1mW and occupies only 132um × 59um in 0.18-um CMOS technology. The proposed circuit is implemented by Gilbert cells and an exponential function circuit for the dB linearity of the gain voltage. The gain of the VGA can be varied linearly in dB from -10dB to 50dB with respect to a control voltage from 0.2V to 0.85V. The operation frequency is only 10MHz, but the VGA maintains 3dB-bandwidth wider than 46MHz throughout its gain range. At the worst case, the amplitude of the output can be 300mV when THD is lower than -40dBc. The total simulation is based on TSMC 0.18um. Low power consumption is obtained owing to high transition frequency of the transistors in 0.18-um CMOS technology.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; HF amplifiers; low-power electronics; CMOS technology; Gilbert cells; TSMC; exponential function circuit; frequency 10 MHz; linear-in-dB CMOS VGA; low power consumption; power 1.1 mW; size 0.18 mum; small-size variable gain amplifier; transition frequency; voltage 0.2 V to 0.85 V; Bandwidth; CMOS integrated circuits; Gain; Gain control; Power demand; Transistors; Tuning; lower-power; small-area; variable gain amplifier;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Technology & Computational Electromagnetics (ICMTCE), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Qingdao

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMTCE.2013.6812433

Filename

6812433