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http://dx.doi.org/10.5573/ieie.2017.54.2.053

A 170㎼ Low Noise Amplifier Using Current Reuse Gm-boosting Technique for MedRadio Applications  

Kim, InSoo (Dept. of Electronics Engineering, Kangwon National University)
Kwon, Kuduck (Dept. of Electronics Engineering, Kangwon National University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers / v.54, no.2, 2017 , pp. 53-57 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper proposes a 401MHz-406MHz low noise amplifier for MedRadio applications. The proposed low noise amplifier adopts a common gate amplifier topology using current reuse gm-boosting technique. The proposed low noise amplifier shows better performance of voltage gain and noise figure than the conventional gm-boosted common gate amplifier in the same power consumption. The proposed current-reuse gm-boosted low noise amplifier achieves a voltage gain of 22 dB, a noise figure of 2.95 dB, and IIP3 of -17 dBm while consuming $170{\mu}W$ from a 0.5 V supply voltage in $0.13{\mu}m$ CMOS process.
Keywords
Current-reuse; Gm-boosting; Low noise amplifier; Low-power; MedRadio;
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