Low Noise Amplifiers for Low-Power Impulse-Radio Ultra Wide-Band Receivers

Author

Barajas, Enrique ; Cosculluela, R. ; Coutinho, Daniel ; Molina, Marc ; Mateo, Diego ; Gonzalez, Jose Luis ; Cairo, Ignasi ; Banda, Shunji ; Ikeda, Masayuki

Author_Institution

Electr.Eng. Dept., Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona

fYear

2006

fDate

24-27 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

471

Lastpage

476

Abstract

In this paper, two different low noise amplifiers (LNA) for impulse-radio (IR) ultra-wideband (UWB) receivers are presented. They have been designed in a 0.18 mum CMOS process, with a central frequency of 8 GHz and about 1 GHz bandwidth. The applications considered are portable applications for very short communication distances (body area networks, BAN) with bit rates up to 200 Mbps. Therefore, a crucial goal to achieve when designing the LNAs was power dissipation. In order to get very low power consumption, on/off switching technique has been implemented. Both LNAs are presented and analyzed, comparing their performances with state of the art LNAs

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; UHF amplifiers; UHF integrated circuits; circuit switching; integrated circuit design; low noise amplifiers; microwave amplifiers; microwave integrated circuits; microwave receivers; radio networks; radio receivers; ultra wideband communication; 0.18 micron; 1 GHz; 8 GHz; CMOS process; IR; LNA; UWB; circuit design; low noise amplifier; low-power impulse-radio; on-off switching technique; power consumption; power dissipation; ultra wide-band receiver; Bandwidth; Bit rate; Body area networks; Body sensor networks; Broadband amplifiers; CMOS process; Frequency; Low-noise amplifiers; Power dissipation; Ultra wideband technology; CMOS; Impulse-Radio (IR); LNA; Low Noise Amplifier; Ultra-wideband (UWB);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultra-Wideband, The 2006 IEEE 2006 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Waltham, MA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0101-1

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0102-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICU.2006.281595

Filename

4059490