Common Gate Transformer Feedback LNA in a High IIP3 Current Mode RF CMOS Front-End

Author(s):  
Antonio Liscidini ◽  
Cesare Ghezzi ◽  
Emanuele Depaoli ◽  
Guido Albasini ◽  
Ivan Bietti ◽  
...  
2008 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chung-Yu Wu ◽  
Wen-Chieh Wang ◽  
Fadi R. Shahroury ◽  
Zue-Der Huang ◽  
Hao-Jie Zhan

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (22) ◽  
pp. 2050226
Author(s):  
Benqing Guo ◽  
Jing Gong ◽  
Yao Wang ◽  
Jingwei Wu

A CMOS fully differential current-mode front-end for SAW-less receivers is proposed. The noise-canceling LNTA has a main path of the common-gate (CG) stage and an auxiliary path of the inverter stage. A current mirror is used to combine the signals from the main and auxiliary paths in current mode. The stacked nMOS/pMOS configurations improve their power efficiency. The traditional stacked tri-state inverter as D-latch replaced by the discrete inverter and transmission gate enables a reduced supply voltage of divider core. LO generator based on the improved divider provides quarter LO signals to drive the proposed LNTA-shared receiver front-end. Simulation results in 180 nm CMOS indicate that the integrated receiver front-end provides an NF of 2.4 dB, and a maximum gain of 45 dB from 0.2 to 3.3 GHz. The in-band (IB) and out-of-band (OB) IIP3 of 2.5 dBm and 4 dBm, are obtained, respectively. With CMOS scaling down continuously, CMOS devices are providing increased transit frequency and reduced intrinsic parasitics which are important for radio frequency (RF) and millimeter-wave applications. As a promising solution, CMOS RF delivers comparable performance to silicon bipolar and GaAs devices but at a much lower cost and higher integration level. Supply voltage reduction with CMOS scaling down also poses a stringent linearity requirement. Avoiding the conventional trade-off between the supply voltage and linearity headroom, the proposed receiver front-end based on the current mode principle is with weak linearity dependency on the supply voltage and provides excellent anti-blocker interference capability.


Author(s):  
Raja Krishnamoorthy ◽  
E. Kavitha ◽  
V. Beslin Geo ◽  
K.S.R. Radhika ◽  
C. Bharatiraja

2005 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 1181-1188 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.A. Floyd ◽  
S.K. Reynolds ◽  
T. Zwick ◽  
L. Khuon ◽  
T. Beukema ◽  
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