Generating all two-MOS-transistor amplifiers leads to new wide-band LNAs

F. Bruccoleri; Eric A.M. Klumperink; Bram Nauta

doi:10.1109/4.933458

Generating all two-MOS-transistor amplifiers leads to new wide-band LNAs

F. Bruccoleri, Eric A.M. Klumperink, Bram Nauta

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This paper presents a methodology that systematically generates all 2-MOS-transistor wide-band amplifiers, assuming that MOSFET is exploited as a voltage-controlled current source. This leads to new circuits. Their gain and noise factor have been compared to well-known wide-band amplifiers. One of the new circuits appears to have a relatively low noise factor, which is also gain independent. Based on this new circuit, a 50-900 MHz variable-gain wide-band LNA has been designed in 0.35-?m CMOS. Measurements show a noise figure between 4.3 and 4.9 dB for gains from 6 to 11 dB. These values are more than 2 dB lower than the noise figure of the wide-band common-gate LNA for the same input matching, power consumption, and voltage gain. IIP2 and IIP3 are better than 23.5 and 14.5 dBm, respectively, while the LNA drains only 1.5 mA at 3.3 V

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1032-1040
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE journal of solid-state circuits
Volume	36
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/4.933458
Publication status	Published - Jul 2001
Event	26th European Solid-State Circuits Conference, ESSCIRC 2000 - Stockholm, Sweden Duration: 19 Sept 2000 → 21 Sept 2000 Conference number: 26

Keywords

LNAs
systematic generation
variable-gain amplifier
wide-band amplifier
voltage-controlled current source
CODEN-IJSCBC
EWI-14344
METIS-202757
IR-42725
Low noise amplifiers
VCCS

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