Title :
Reconfigurable CMOS low noise amplifier for self compensation
Author :
Kawazoe, Daisuke ; Sugawara, Hirotaka ; Ito, Takeshi ; Okada, Kenichi ; Masu, Kazuya
Author_Institution :
Integrated Res. Inst., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Yokohama
Abstract :
This paper proposes a reconfigurable low noise amplifier (LNA). The proposed LNA equips variable bias circuit and can be reconfigured by bias voltage of transistors. It contributes to power reduction, compensation of intermodulation, and output signal to noise ratio (SNR out). The proposed LNA achieves 73 % of power reduction by controlling bias voltage, and dynamic compensation of DeltaIM3 and SNR out is realized
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; low noise amplifiers; CMOS low noise amplifier; intermodulation compensation; reconfigurable amplifier; self compensation; CMOS technology; Circuit noise; Circuit optimization; Circuit synthesis; Costs; Low-noise amplifiers; Radio frequency; Runtime; Temperature; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 2006. ISCAS 2006. Proceedings. 2006 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Island of Kos
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9389-9
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.2006.1693358