An MMIC amplifier for automatic level control applications

Author

Nary, K.R. ; Van Tuyl, R.L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

7-8 May 1990

Firstpage

73

Lastpage

76

Abstract

An automatic gain control amplifier for automatically leveled output power, broadband, swept-frequency applications to 3 GHz has been developed. Consisting of a variable- pi attenuator, four additive-gain amplifier stages, a temperature-compensated peak detector, and an output buffer, the amplifier features a maximum leveled gain of 22 dB, a gain control range of 25 dB good input and output matches to 50 Omega , and suppressed second-harmonic distortion. It operates with +or-6-V power supplies and dissipates approximately 800 mW.<>

Keywords

MMIC; automatic gain control; field effect integrated circuits; linear integrated circuits; microwave amplifiers; wideband amplifiers; -6 V; 22 dB; 3 GHz; 6 V; 800 mW; MMIC amplifier; SHF; additive-gain amplifier stages; automatic gain control; automatic level control applications; broadband; output buffer; swept-frequency applications; temperature-compensated peak detector; variable- pi attenuator; Attenuators; Broadband amplifiers; Detectors; Gain control; Impedance matching; Level control; MMICs; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Power supplies;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Monolithic Circuits Symposium, 1990. Digest of Papers., IEEE 1990

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX, USA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MCS.1990.110942

Filename

110942