Document Type

Conference Item

Publication Date

9-1-2011

Abstract

A 130-nm CMOS low-noise amplifier (LNA) for WCDMA applications is presented. The circuit adopts an inductively degenerated cascode topology. A detailed methodology using power constraint noise optimization (PCNO) method that leads to an optimum width of the LNA is presented. A theoretical noise figure optimization using fixed power was used as a design optimization guide. This inductively degenerated cascade topology show good noise performance which it achieve a noise figure of 1.32dB while provides a forward gain, S21 of 18.24 dB from a 1.2V voltage supply. The input reflection coefficient, S11 is -19 dB.

Keywords

Cascode LNA, Inductively degenerated, Power Constraint Noise Optimization (PCNO), WCDMA

Divisions

fac_eng

Event Title

2011 IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ISIEA 2011

Event Location

Langkawi

Event Dates

25-28 Sep 2011

Event Type

conference

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