• DocumentCode
    2159942
  • Title

    A 1.5 GHz Fully-Monolithic CMOS LNA and Its Noise Behavior

  • Author

    Mahmud, Arif ; El-Ghazaly, Samir

  • Author_Institution
    Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA. arif@asu.edu
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    Oct. 2000
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    A 1.8 V, 1.57542 GHz LNA has been designed for a 0.5-¿m CMOS process. This amplifier provides a forward gain of 19 dB with a low noise figure of only 2 dB while drawing 17 mW DC power. Unlike most of the circuits in literature, this design includes on-chip biasing and matching networks. A noise rejection study on a single-ended and a differential LNA designed in the proposed approach shows that the differential amplifier is more noisy for the same gain while being less sensitive to common-mode noise.
  • Keywords
    Bonding; CMOS process; Circuit noise; Frequency; Impedance matching; Inductors; Low-noise amplifiers; Noise figure; Signal processing; Spirals;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Conference, 2000. 30th European
  • Conference_Location
    Paris, France
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EUMA.2000.338633
  • Filename
    4139959