• DocumentCode
    3279355
  • Title

    A 27 GHz fully integrated CMOS distributed amplifier using coplanar waveguides

  • Author

    Amaya, Rony E. ; Tarr, N.G. ; Plett, Calvin

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Ont., Canada
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    6-8 June 2004
  • Firstpage
    193
  • Lastpage
    196
  • Abstract
    This paper reports a CMOS distributed amplifier which operates from 1-27 GHz. This amplifier exhibits a measured gain of 6 dB and uses coplanar waveguides to implement required inductances. Power consumption is 68.1 mW while driven from a 3.3V supply but it can operate with supply voltages as low as 1.8V. Chip area is 1.8 × 0.9 mm. To the author´s knowledge this is the fastest frequency of operation ever reported for a distributed amplifier implemented in a standard CMOS technology.
  • Keywords
    CMOS analogue integrated circuits; coplanar waveguides; distributed amplifiers; 1 to 27 GHz; 1.8 to 3.3 V; 6 dB; 68.1 mW; coplanar waveguides; inductances; integrated CMOS distributed amplifier; Bandwidth; CMOS process; CMOS technology; Capacitance; Coplanar waveguides; Distributed amplifiers; Frequency; Gain; Optical amplifiers; Optical waveguides;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, 2004. Digest of Papers. 2004 IEEE
  • ISSN
    1529-2517
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8333-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/RFIC.2004.1320568
  • Filename
    1320568