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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2013.17.1.158

Design of UWB CMOS Low Noise Amplifier Using Inductor Peaking Technique  

Sung, Young-Kyu (고려대학교 대학원 전자정보공학과)
Yoon, Kyung-Sik (고려대학교 전자및정보공학과)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.17, no.1, 2013 , pp. 158-165 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, a new circuit topology of an ultra-wideband (UWB) 3.1-10.6GHz CMOS low noise amplifier is presented. The proposed UWB low noise amplifier is designed utilizing RC feedback and LC filter networks which can provide good input impedance matching. In this design, the current-reused topology is adopted to reduce the power consumption and the inductor-peaking technique is applied for the purpose of bandwidth extension. The performance results of this UWB low noise amplifier simulated in $0.18-{\mu}m$ CMOS process technology exhibit a power gain of 14-14.9dB, an input matching of better than -10.8dB, gain flatness of 0.9dB, and a noise figure of 2.7-3.3dB in the frequency range of 3.1-10.6GHz. In addition, the input IP3 is -5dBm and the power consumption is 12.5mW.
Keywords
UWB CMOS LNA; inductor peaking; current-reuse; bandwidth extension;
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