Wide Band CMOS Low-Noise Amplifier Exploiting Noise Cancellation

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

Wide Band CMOS Low-Noise Amplifier Exploiting Noise Cancellation

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

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Abstract

Well-known elementary wide band amplifiers suffer from a fundamental trade-off between noise factor and source impedance matching, which limits their noise figure (NF) to values typically above 3dB. Negative feedback can be employed to break this trade-off, thus allowing lower noise figures, however, at the price of potential instability. In contrast, this paper describes a novel feed-forward noise cancelling technique, which allows for design wide band Low Noise Ampliers (LNAs) with sub 3dB noise figure, without suffering from instability issues. This technique is also robust and easy to use. Measurements on a wide band LNA realised in 0.25μm standard CMOS show NF values below 2.4dB over more than one decade of bandwidth and below 2dB over more than two octaves.

Original language	Undefined
Title of host publication	13th ProRISC Workshop on Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing
Place of Publication	Utrecht
Publisher	STW
Pages	224-231
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	90-73461-33-2
Publication status	Published - Nov 2002
Event	13th Workshop on Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, ProRISC 2002 - Veldhoven, Netherlands Duration: 28 Nov 2002 → 29 Nov 2002 Conference number: 13

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Publisher	STW Technology Foundation

Workshop

Workshop	13th Workshop on Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, ProRISC 2002
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Veldhoven
Period	28/11/02 → 29/11/02

Keywords

wide band
EWI-14414
METIS-207356
IR-67439
noise cancelling
Low-noise amplifier
LNA
noise cancellation
Broadband

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