A new CMOS wideband low noise amplifier with gain control

In this paper, a new CMOS wideband low noise amplifier (LNA) is proposed that is operated within a range of 470 MHz-3 GHz with current reuse, mirror bias and a source inductive degeneration technique. A two-stage topology is adopted to implement the LNA based on the TSMC 0.18-μm RF CMOS process. Traditional wideband LNAs suffer from a fundamental trade-off in noise figure (NF), gain and source impedance matching. Therefore, we propose a new LNA which obtains good NF and gain flatness performance by integrating two kinds of wideband matching techniques and a two-stage topology. The new LNA can also achieve a tunable gain at different power consumption conditions. The measurement results at the maximum power consumption mode show that the gain is between 11.3 and 13.6 dB, the NF is less than 2.5 dB, and the third-order intercept point (IIP3) is about −3.5 dBm. The LNA consumes maximum power at about 27 mW with a 1.8 V power supply. The core area is 0.55×0.95 mm².     

Design of 3.1–10.6 GHz ultra-wideband CMOS low noise amplifier with current reuse technique

A new low complexity ultra-wideband 3.1–10.6 GHz low noise amplifier (LNA), designed in a chartered 0.18 μm RFCMOS technology, is presented in this paper. The ultra-wideband LNA only consists of two simple amplifiers with an inter-stage inductor connected. The first stage utilizing a resistive current reuse and dual inductive degeneration techniques is used to attain a wideband input matching and low noise figure. A common source amplifier with inductive peaking technique as the second stage achieves high flat gain and wide the −3 dB bandwidth of the overall amplifier simultaneously. The implemented ultra-wideband LNA presents a maximum power gain of 15.6 dB, a high reverse isolation of −45 dB and a good input/output return losses are better than −10 dB in the frequency range of 3.1–10.6 GHz. An excellent noise figure (NF) of 2.8–4.7 dB was obtained in the required band with a power dissipation of 14.1 mW under a supply voltage of 1.5 V. An input-referred third-order intercept point (IIP3) is −7.1 dBm at 6 GHz. The chip area including testing pads is only 0.8 mm × 0.9 mm.     

Design of low power CMOS ultra wide band low noise amplifier using noise canceling technique

This paper presents a design of a low power CMOS ultra-wideband (UWB) low noise amplifier (LNA) using a noise canceling technique with the TSMC 0.18 μm RF CMOS process. The proposed UWB LNA employs a current-reused structure to decrease the total power consumption instead of using a cascade stage. This structure spends the same DC current for operating two transistors simultaneously. The stagger-tuning technique, which was reported to achieve gain flatness in the required frequency, was adopted to have low and high resonance frequency points over the entire bandwidth from 3.1 to 10.6 GHz. The resonance points were set in 3 GHz and 10 GHz to provide enough gain flatness and return loss. In addition, the noise canceling technique was used to cancel the dominant noise source, which is generated by the first transistor. The simulation results show a flat gain (S₂₁>10 dB) with a good input impedance matching less than –10 dB and a minimum noise figure of 2.9 dB over the entire band. The proposed UWB LNA consumed 15.2 mW from a 1.8 V power supply.     

程控增益低噪声宽带直流放大器的设计

介绍了程控增益低噪声宽带直流放大器的设计原理及流程。采用低噪声增益可程控集成运算放大器AD603和高频三极管2N2219和2N2905等器件设计了程控增益低噪声宽带直流放大器,实现了输入电压有效值小于10mV,输出信号有效值最大可达10V,通频带为0～8MHz,增益可在0～50dB之间5dB的步进进行控制,最高增益达到53dB,且宽带内增益起伏远小于1dB的两级宽带直流低噪声放大器的设计。     

A SiGe LC-ladder low noise amplifier with base resistance match,gain and noise flatness for UWB applications

This study presents a 3.1–10.6 GHz ultra-wideband low noise amplifier (UWB LNA) in 0.18 µm SiGe HBT technology. To achieve a good input match, parasitic base resistance in a bipolar transistor and an LC-ladder filter are included into calculations with the common-emitter topology using shunt–shunt capacitive feedback. Both high and flat power gain (S₂₁) and low and flat noise figure (NF) are achieved by adjusting the pole and zero in amplifying stage and quality factors of the fourth-order input network. Design equations for performances such as gain, noise figure and linearity IIP3 are derived especially on gain flatness and noise flatness. LNA dissipates 33 mW power and achieves S₂₁ of 20.65+0.7 dB, NF of 2.79+0.2 dB over the band of 3.1–10.6 GHz. The simulated input third-order intermodulation point (IIP3) is −17 dBm at 10 GHz.     

双频段低噪声放大器的设计

适应多标准移动通信终端的迅速发展,设计了能够在800 MHz和1.8 GHz两个不同频段独立工作的低噪声放大器.放大器使用噪声性能优良的SiGeHBT管子,采用Cascode结构减小Miller电容的影响,发射极串联电感消除放大器输入端噪声系数和功率匹配的耦合,输入匹配电路采用单通道串并联LC电路,计算串并联电感和电容值,可以在两个工作频点发生谐振.输出端通过调整负载阻抗到50Ω,采用简单的电路实现功率输出.ADS的仿真结果表明,本文设计的低噪声放大器在800MHz和1.8 GHz两个工作频段的S21分别达到了24.3 dB和21.3 dB,S11均达到了-13 dB,S22均在-27dB以下,两个频段的噪声系数分别为3.3 dB和2.0 dB.     

A low noise amplifier with automatically Q-tuned notch filter

A low noise amplifier with automatically Q-tuned notch filter is proposed. The automatic Q tuning is achieved by an analog-digital mixed circuit, in which the successive approximation register algorithm is used to search for the appropriate current value through the resonator so that the losses of the resonator are perfectly cancelled to get a deep notch.     

气象探空雷达中平衡式低噪声放大器设计

为了提高L波段气象探空雷达中射频前端的稳定性,采用ATF54143晶体管设计了一种平衡式结构的低噪声放大器。通过使用ADS软件对该低噪声放大器进行了优化、仿真,并进行了实物加工。实物测试表明,该低噪声放大器带内增益大于15dB,噪声系数小于1dB,稳定性系数大于1。     

DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF INTEGRATED OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIER XD1531 WITH LOW NOISE AT LOW FREQUENCIES

Principles of design are described for the low frequency integrated operationalamplifler XD1531 with low noise. The procedures of design of both the circuit structure and the tran-sistor shape are considered. The first stage of the circuit is designed with the methods of low noise atlow frequencies. The measures which decrease noises, especially, the 1/f noise originating .from thesemiconductor surface state and defects, are used for the transistor structure design. With analysisand comparison to products here and abroad in characteristics, it is shown that XD1531 has a lowernoise index at low frequencies than others, and the effectiveness of design methods for bringing lownoises have been demonstrated.     

一种新型900MHz CMOS低噪声放大器的设计

对两种低噪声放大器(LNA)的构架进行了比较,详细推导了共源LNA的噪声系数与输入晶体管栅宽的关系及优化方法,设计了一种采用0.6 μ m标准CMOS工艺,工作于900MHz的新型差分低噪声放大器.在900MHz时,噪声系数为1.5 dB的情况下可提供22.5 dB的功率增益,-3dB带宽为1 50MHz,S11达到-38dB,消耗的电流为5mA.     

Sub-mA single ended CMOS low noise amplifier with 2.41 dB noise figure

This paper presents a single ended low noise amplifier (LNA) using 0.18 μm CMOS process packed and tested on a printed circuit board. The LNA is powered at 1.0 V supply and drains 0.95 mA only. The LNA provides a forward gain of 11.91 dB with a noise figure of only 2.41 dB operating in the 0.9 GHz band. The measured value of IIP3 is 0.7 dBm and of P1dB is −12 dBm. Zhang Liang is currently with Cyrips, Singapore. Ram Singh Rana was born in Delhi (India). Having primary education in Bijepur, Dwarahat(India), he received the B.Tech. (hons.) degree in Computer Engineering from G.B. Pant University, Pantnagar, India in 1988 and the Ph.D degree from the Indian Institute of Techonology (IIT), Delhi, India in 1996. He worked for his Ph.D in the Centre for Applied Research in Electronics, IIT Delhi in close interaction with the Semiconductor Complex Limited, Mohali, India. He was with ESPL, Mohali(India) in 1988 for a very short period and then served IIT Delhi as Senior Research Associate (88-90) and Senior Scientific Officer (90-95) where his main contributions were on CMOS analog IC design in subthreshold operation. He was a Lecturer in the Kumaon Engg. College, Dwarahat (India) before serving the IIT Roorkee (Formerly Univ. of Roorkee) in 1998 as assistant Professor. In 1999, he was a Manager (Engineering), Semiconductor Product Sector of the Motorola, Noida, India. Since joining the Institute of Microelectronics, Singapore in 2000, he worked mostly on RFICs, Fractional-N PLLs, ADCs. During 2001-2004, he worked there as IC Design Research and Training Program Manager. Currently, he is serving the institute as Senior Research Engineer in CMOS IC design (below 1V) for biomedical and bio-sensors. His current interests include design and consultancy for CMOS ICs/systems for the biomedical and high speed communication applications. Dr. Rana received Young Teacher Career Award from the All India Council for Technical Education in 1997. He was an Adjunct Asstt. Professor with the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore in 2004. He is sole inventor of two US granted patents and has filed several other patents. He has authored/co-authored about 40 publications. He has been reviewer for several IEEE journals and conference papers. Dr Rana is a senior member of IEEE and a member of Graduate Program in BioEngineering, NUS Singapore. He has chaired /co-chaired sessions in many international conferences. Zhang Liang was born in China in June 1978. He received the Bachelor degree and the Master degree in Electrical Engineering from the Xi’an JiaoTong University, Xi’an, China, in 2000 and 2003 respectively. Since 2003, he has been a postgraduate student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, National University of Singapore(NUS), Singapore and has successfully completed M.Engg degree program of the NUS. He is currently working on RFICs as a design engineer in Cyrips, Singapore. His design and research interests include integrated circuit design for communications. He has authored/co-authored several publications of international standard. Hari K Garg obtained his BTech degree in EE from IITDelhi in 1981. Subsequently, he obtained his MEng & PhD degrees from Concordia University in 1983 & 1985, and MBA from Syracuse University in 1985. He was a faculty member at Syracuse University from 1985 till 1995. He has been with the National University of Singapore since 1995 till present with the exception of 1998-1999 when he was with Philips. Hari’s research interests are in the area of digital signal/image processing, wireless communications, coding theory and digital watermarking. He has published extensively on these and related topics. He is also founder of several companies in the space of mobile telephony. In his spare time, Hari enjoys singing and a good game of Squash.     

0.18-um CMOS 3.1-10．6GHz超宽带低噪声放大器设计

介绍了一种基于0．18-um CMOS工艺、适用于超宽带无线通信系统接收前端的低噪声放大器。在3．1～10．6GHz的频带范围内对它仿真获得如下结果：最高增益12dB；增益波动小于2dB；输入端口反射系数S11小于-10dB；输出端口反射系数S22小于-15dB；噪声系数NF小于4．6dB。采用1．5V电源供电，功耗为10．5mW。与近期公开发表的超宽带低噪声放大器仿真结果相比较，本电路结构具有工作带宽大、功耗低、输入匹配电路简单的优点。     

一款采用有源电感的增益可调且平坦的超宽带低噪声放大器

采用有源电感,设计了一款增益可调且平坦的超宽带低噪声放大器(FTG UWB-LNA)。在输入级,采用具有新型偏置电路和RLC反馈的共基-共射放大器来实现良好的宽带输入阻抗匹配;在放大级,采用由新型有源电感与达林顿结构构成的组合电路,来实现增益的可调性、平坦化和幅度提升。在输出级,采用电阻并联和电流镜偏置的共集放大器,来实现良好的输出阻抗匹配。基于WIN 0.2μm GaAs HBT工艺库,对FTG UWB-LNA进行验证,结果表明：在1-6GHz频带内,增益(S21)可以在21.16dB-23.9dB之间调谐,最佳增益平坦度达到±0.65dB;输入回波损耗(S11)小于-10dB;输出回波损耗(S22)小于-12dB;噪声系数(NF)小于4.08dB;在4V的工作电压下,静态功耗小于33mW。     

CMOS planar spiral inductor modeling and low noise amplifier design

During this study, various narrowband single-ended inductive source degenerated Low Noise Amplifiers (LNAs) for GSM and S-band low earth orbit (LEO) space applications have been designed, simulated and compared using Mietec CMOS 0.7 μm process and the Cadence/BSIM3v3. To get more realistic results, parasitic effects due to layout have been calculated and added to the simulations. Also, considering the inductive source degenerative topology, most of the attention is given on the modeling of planar spiral inductor by lumped element circuits. Moreover to decrease the substrate effects, the inductors have been surrounded by grounded guard rings and have patterned ground shield (PGS) under them. The simulation results of LNA including the parasitic effects indicate a forward gain of 9 dB with noise figure of 4.5 dB while drawing 18 mW from+3 V supply at 2210 MHz. The area occupied is 1.8 mm×1.6 mm with pads, 1.3 mm×1.2 mm without pads.     

应用于2.4GHz无线传感网的低功耗共栅低噪声放大器设计

本文给出一种基于TSMC 0. 18μm RF CMOS工艺、应用于无线传感器网络2.4GHz的低功耗低噪声放大器设计。本设计采用两级级联的交叉耦合共栅结构,第一级共栅级采用电容交叉耦合技术以降低电路功耗的同时提高电路增益、降低电路噪声。第二级共栅级采用正反馈交叉耦合技术以提供一个负阻抵消负载电感的寄生电阻,提高电感等效Q值,进一步提高增益。为了达到足够的增益,作者设计了一款片上差分电感作为负载,对其进行了电磁场仿真,建立了双π模型并进行了流片验证。该低噪声放大器经过流片,测试结果显示：高增益工作情况下,其增益S21为16.8dB,低增益工作情况下为1dB。高增益工作情况下,其噪声系数为3.6dB;低增益工作情况下,电路的输入1dB压缩点为-8dBm,IIP3为2dBm。该低噪声放大器在1.8V电源电压下,工作电流约为1.2mA。     

超宽带CMOS低噪声放大器的设计

设计了一种应用于3.1~5.2 GHz频段超宽带系统接收机的差分低噪声放大器,采用前置切比雪夫(Chebyshev)2阶LC ladder带通滤波器的并联负反馈结构,详细分析了其输入宽带阻抗匹配特性和噪声特性。仿真基于TSMC 0.18μm RF CMOS工艺。结果表明,在全频段,电路功率增益S21为11 dB,增益平坦度小于1 dB,最小噪声系数为3.5 dB,输入输出均良好匹配,在1.8V电源电压下,功耗为14.4 mW。