Inductive Feedback Technique for Design of High Gain 0.18μm CMOS LNA for 5G Applications

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.

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (23) ◽  
pp. 1950280
Author(s):  
Guoxiao Cheng ◽  
Zhiqun Li ◽  
Pengfei Yue ◽  
Lei Luo ◽  
Xiaodong He ◽  
...  

A wideband (2–3 GHz) three-stage low noise amplifier (LNA) with electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuits using 0.18 [Formula: see text]m CMOS technology is presented in this paper. Low-parasitic silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) devices are co-designed with the LNA in the form of [Formula: see text]-parameters, and a new cascaded L-match input network is proposed to reduce the parasitic effects of them on the input matching. To improve linearity performance, an optimized multiple-gated transistors method (MGTR) is proposed and applied to the third stage, which takes both transconductance [Formula: see text] and third-order nonlinear coefficient [Formula: see text] into consideration. The measured results show a wide input matching across 2–8 GHz and a high third-order input intercept point (IIP3) of −12.8 dBm. The peak power gain can achieve 29.1 dB, and the noise figure (NF) is in a range of 3.1–3.6 dB within the 3-dB bandwidth. Using SCR devices with low parasitic capacitance of [Formula: see text]80 fF and robust gate-driven power clamps, a 6.5-kV human body mode (HBM) ESD performance is obtained.


Author(s):  
S.A.Z. Murad ◽  
A. F. Hasan ◽  
A. Azizan ◽  
A. Harun ◽  
J. Karim

<span>This paper presents a concurrent dual-band CMOS low noise amplifier (LNA) at operating frequency of 2.4 GHz and 5.2 GHz for WLAN applications. The proposed LNA employed cascode common source to obtain high gain using 0.13-µm CMOS technology. The concurrent dual-band frequencies are matched using LC network band-pass and band-stop notch filter at the input and output stages. The filters help to shape the frequency response of the proposed LNA. The simulation results indicate that the LNA achieves a forward gain of 21.8 dB and 14.22 dB, input return loss of -18 dB and -14 dB at 2.4 GHz and 5.2 GHz, respectively. The noise figure of 4.1 dB and 3.5 dB with the input third-order intercept points 7 dBm and 10 dBm are obtained at 2.4 GHz and 5.2 GHz, respectively. The LNA dissipates 2.4 mW power at 1.2 V supply voltage with a chip size of 1.69 mm2.</span>


Author(s):  
Dr. Rashmi S B ◽  
Mr. Raghavendra B ◽  
Mr. Sanketh V

A CMOS low noise amplifier (LNA) for ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless applications is presented in this paper. The proposed CMOS low noise amplifier (LNA) is designed using common-gate (CG) topology as the first stage to achieve ultra-wideband input matching. The common-gate (CG) is cascaded with common- source (CS) topology with current-reused configuration to enhance the gain and noise figure (NF) performance of the LNA with low power. The Buffer stage is used as output matching network to improve the reflection coefficient. The proposed low noise amplifier (LNA) is implemented using CADENCE Virtuoso Analog and Digital Design Environment tool in 90nm CMOS technology. The LNA provides a forward voltage gain or power gain (S21) of 32.34dB , a minimum noise figure of 2dB, a reverse-isolation (S12) of less than - 38.74dB and an output reflection coefficient (S22) of less than -7.4dB for the entire ultra-wideband frequency range. The proposed LNA has an input reflection coefficient (S11) of less than -10dB for the ultra-wideband frequency range. It achieves input referred 1-dB compression point of 78.53dBm and input referred 3-dB compression point of 13dBm. It consumes only 24.226mW of power from a Vdd supply of 0.7V.


Frequenz ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 83-93
Author(s):  
Vikram Singh ◽  
Sandeep Kumar Arya ◽  
Manoj Kumar

AbstractA 3–12 GHz ultra-wideband (UWB) low noise amplifier (LNA) is proposed in this paper. The first stage common-gate (CG), common-source (CS) noise canceling approach is used to achieve low noise-figure (NF). CG configuration at the input stage provides wideband input-matching. The noise of CG transistor is cancelled by systematically added two parallel CS transistors, whose outputs are cascoded in second stage. In order to achieve flat power gain (S21) response, a series peaking inductor is used in the second stage. The proposed LNA is designed in 90 nm CMOS process with chip-layout area of 0.467 mm2 and in comparison to the existing LNAs, it consumes a low power of 5.7 mW from a 1 V supply. The achieved input-reflection coefficient (S11) is <−7.5 dB, output-reflection coefficient (S22) is <−7.6 dB with NF < 5.8 dB for 3–12 GHz UWB and third-order intercept point (IIP3) of −19 dBm. It achieves high and flat S21 of 20.84 ± 0.28 dB over 4.2–10 GHz, with NF ranging from 2.6–3.6 dB.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.24) ◽  
pp. 227
Author(s):  
J Manjula ◽  
A Ruhan Bevi

This paper presents an Adaptive Gain 79GHz Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) suitable for Radars applications. The circuit schematic is a two stage LNA consists of Differential cascode configuration followed by a simple common source amplifier with an Adaptive Biasing (ADB) circuit. Adaptive biasing is a three- stage common source amplifier to decrease output voltage as input power increases. The circuit is simulated in 180nm CMOS technology and the simulation results have proved that the circuit operates at the center frequency 79GHz with adaptive biasing for adaptive gain. The gain analysis shows a decrease of 35-30dB with an increase in input power -50 to 0 dB. At 79GHz the circuit has achieved the input reflection coefficient (S11) of -24.7dB, reverse isolation (S12) of -3 dB, forward transmission coefficient (S21) of -2.97dB and output reflection coefficient (S22) of -5.62 dB with the reduced noise figure of 0.9 dB and a power consumption of 236 mW.  


2013 ◽  
Vol 479-480 ◽  
pp. 1014-1017
Author(s):  
Yi Cheng Chang ◽  
Meng Ting Hsu ◽  
Yu Chang Hsieh

In this study, three stage ultra-wide-band CMOS low-noise amplifier (LNA) is presented. The UWB LNA is design in 0.18μm TSMC CMOS technique. The LNA input and output return loss are both less than-10dB, and achieved 10dB of average power gain, the minimum noise figure is 6.55dB, IIP3 is about-9.5dBm. It consumes 11mW from a 1.0-V supply voltage.


2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (11) ◽  
pp. 2020006
Author(s):  
Tian Qi ◽  
Songbai He ◽  
Cheng Zhong ◽  
Zhitao Zhu

In this paper, the design of a wideband monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) low-noise amplifier (LNA) fabricated in 0.13-[Formula: see text]m GaAs pHEMT process is presented. A simple T-type input matching network (IMN) and a source feedback structure are employed to achieve low noise figure (NF). The MMIC LNA, which operates across 12–18[Formula: see text]GHz, can be used for satellite applications. Experimental results show an NF around 1.5[Formula: see text]dB in 12–17.5[Formula: see text]GHz and a minimum NF of 1.21[Formula: see text]dB at 16.5[Formula: see text]GHz. In addition, a flat small-signal gain of [Formula: see text][Formula: see text]dB is achieved at 13.5–17.5[Formula: see text]GHz. The input return loss is lower than [Formula: see text] dB at 12–14.5[Formula: see text]GHz and the output return loss is lower than [Formula: see text] dB at 12–17[Formula: see text]GHz. The power consumed is lower than 0.3[Formula: see text]W and the [Formula: see text] (1-dB compression point) output power is around 13[Formula: see text]dBm.


Author(s):  
Asieh Parhizkar Tarighat ◽  
Mostafa Yargholi

A two-path low-noise amplifier (LNA) is designed with TSMC 0.18[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]m standard RF CMOS process for 6–16[Formula: see text]GHz frequency band applications. The principle of a conventional resistive shunt feedback LNA is analyzed to demonstrate the trade-off between the noise figure (NF) and the input matching. To alleviate the mentioned issue for wideband application, this structure with noise canceling technique and linearity improvement are applied to a two-path structure. Flat and high gain is supplied by the primary path; while the input and output impedance matching are provided by the secondary path. The [Formula: see text][Formula: see text]dB bandwidth can be increased to a higher frequency by inductive peaking, which is used at the first stage of the two paths. Besides, by biasing the transistors at the threshold voltage, low power dissipation is achieved. The [Formula: see text][Formula: see text]dB gain bandwidth of the proposed LNA is 10[Formula: see text]GHz, while the maximum power gain of 13.1[Formula: see text]dB is attained. With this structure, minimum NF of 4.6[Formula: see text]dB and noise flatness of 1[Formula: see text]dB in the whole bandwidth can be achieved. The input impedance is matched, and S[Formula: see text] is lower than [Formula: see text]10 dB. With the proposed linearized LNA, the average IIP[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]dBm is gained, while it occupies 1051.7[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]m die area.


Author(s):  
T. Kanthi ◽  
D. Sharath Babu Rao

This paper is about Low noise amplifier topologies based on 0.18µm CMOS technology. A common source stage with inductive degeneration, cascode stage and folded cascode stage is designed, simulated and the performance has been analyzed. The LNA’s are designed in 5GHz. The LNA of cascode stage of noise figure (NF) 2.044dB and power gain 4.347 is achieved. The simulations are done in cadence virtuoso spectre RF.


Author(s):  
Nguyen Huu Tho

This paper presents an inductor-less wide-band highly linear low-noise amplifier (LNA) for wire-less receivers. The inductor-less LNA consists of a complementary current-reuse common source amplifier combined with a low-current active feedback to obtain wide range input impedance matching and low noise figure. In our LNA, a degeneration resistor is utilized to improve linearity of the LNA. Furthermore, we designed a bypass mode for the LNA to extend the range of its applications. The proposed LNA is implemented in 28 nm CMOS process. It has a gain of 14.9 dB and a bandwidth of 2.2 GHz. The noise figure (NF) is 1.95 dB and the third-order input intercept point (IIP3) is 24.8 dBm at 2.3 GHz. It consumes 17.2 mW at a 0.9-V supply and has an area of 0.011 mm2.


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