Design of Wideband LNAs Using Parallel-to-Series Resonant Matching Network Between Common-Gate and Common-Source Stages

2011 ◽  
Vol 59 (9) ◽  
pp. 2285-2294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Tsung Lo ◽  
Jean-Fu Kiang
2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry Jing

<p>this article is aimed to design two impedances matching network to let the source degeneration and common gate amplifier to achieve the ideal characteristic. In the source degeneration case as the resistance is so small, so we just use down converting matching network. As the source degeneration gives us a high resistance , we just match with a up converting network.<b></b></p><p> </p>


Author(s):  
Anjana Jyothi Banu ◽  
G. Kavya ◽  
D. Jahnavi

A 26[Formula: see text]GHz low-noise amplifier (LNA) designed for 5G applications using 0.18[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]m CMOS technology is proposed in this paper. The circuit includes a common-source in the first stage to suppress the noise in the amplifier. The successive stage has a Cascode topology along with an inductive feedback to improve the power gain. The input matching network is designed to achieve the input reflection coefficient less than [Formula: see text]7dB at the intended frequency. The matching network at the output is designed using inductor–capacitor (LC) components connected in parallel to attain the output reflection coefficient of [Formula: see text]10[Formula: see text]dB. Due to the inductor added in feedback at the second stage. The [Formula: see text] obtained is 18.208[Formula: see text]dB at 26[Formula: see text]GHz with a noise figure (NF) of 2.8[Formula: see text]dB. The power supply given to the LNA is 1.8[Formula: see text]V. The simulation and layout of the presented circuit are performed using Cadence Virtuoso software.


Circuit World ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 243-248
Author(s):  
Min Liu ◽  
Panpan Xu ◽  
Jincan Zhang ◽  
Bo Liu ◽  
Liwen Zhang

Purpose Power amplifiers (PAs) play an important role in wireless communications because they dominate system performance. High-linearity broadband PAs are of great value for potential use in multi-band system implementation. The purpose of this paper is to present a cascode power amplifier architecture to achieve high power and high efficiency requirements for 4.2∼5.4 GHz applications. Design/methodology/approach A common emitter (CE) configuration with a stacked common base configuration of heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) is used to achieve high power. T-type matching network is used as input matching network. To increase the bandwidth, the output matching networks are implemented using the two L-networks. Findings By using the proposed method, the stacked PA demonstrates a maximum saturated output power of 26.2 dBm, a compact chip size of 1.17 × 0.59 mm2 and a maximum power-added efficiency of 46.3 per cent. The PA shows a wideband small signal gain with less than 3 dB variation over working frequency. The saturated output power of the proposed PA is higher than 25 dBm between 4.2 and 5.4 GHz. Originality/value The technology adopted for the design of the 4.2-to-5.4 GHz stacked PA is the 2-µm gallium arsenide HBT process. Based on the proposed method, a better power performance of 3 dB improvement can be achieved as compared with the conventional CE or common-source amplifier because of high output stacking impedance.


2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (05) ◽  
pp. 2050077
Author(s):  
Najam Muhammad Amin ◽  
Lianfeng Shen ◽  
Danish Kaleem ◽  
Zhi-Gong Wang ◽  
Keping Wang ◽  
...  

An active quasi-circulator (AQC) integrated circuit is designed and fabricated in a 0.18-[Formula: see text]m CMOS process. The proposed design is based on a parallel combination of a common-source (CS) stage and a combined common-drain (CD) and common-gate (CG) topology. Scattering matrix of the core AQC circuit is derived considering MOSFET’s secondary effects, particularly the body effect as well as output loading effects. Measurements of the quasi-circulator reveal an insertion loss of [Formula: see text] dB between transmitter-to-antenna ports ([Formula: see text]) and of [Formula: see text] dB between antenna-to-receiver ports ([Formula: see text]), within a frequency band of 2.2–4.6 GHz. The isolation between the transmitter and the receiver ports ([Formula: see text]) is better than 24 dB with a maximum value of 29.5[Formula: see text]dB @ 3.6[Formula: see text]GHz. The power dissipation of the proposed AQC is 40[Formula: see text]mW and it covers an active chip area of 0.677[Formula: see text]mm2.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick Ray I. Gomez ◽  
John Richard E. Hizon ◽  
Maria Theresa G. De Leon

The paper presents a design and simulation study of three active balun circuits implemented in a standard 90nm Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) process namely: (1) common-source/drain active balun; (2) common-gate with common-source active balun; and (3) differential active balun.  The active balun designs are intended for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) applications operating at frequency 5.8GHz and with supply voltage of 1V.  Measurements are taken for parameters such as gain difference, phase difference, and noise figure.  All designs achieved gain difference of less than 0.23dB, phase difference of 180° ± 7.1°, and noise figure of 7.2–9.85dB, which are comparable to previous designs and researches.  Low power consumption attained at the most 4.45mW.


2014 ◽  
Vol 157 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-80
Author(s):  
Mitchell R. Hunt ◽  
Rana Sayyah ◽  
Cody Mitchell ◽  
Crystal L. McCartney ◽  
Todd C. Macleod ◽  
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