CMOS Low Noise Amplifier with Capacitive Feedback Matching

A capacitive shunt feedback LNA input matching network is demonstrated which offers matching, good noise performance, low component count and low area consumption. A prototype 9 GHz LNA vehicle amplifier is designed and fabricated in a 130nm RF-CMOS process. The measured amplifier has 20.5dB of gain...

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Main Authors: Adabi, E., Niknejad, A.M.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Capacitive Feedback
CMOS LNA
Feedback
Frequency
Gain measurement
Impedance matching
Input Match
Low-noise amplifiers
Noise figure
Power measurement
Prototypes
Semiconductor device measurement
Shunt Feedback
Vehicles
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Summary:A capacitive shunt feedback LNA input matching network is demonstrated which offers matching, good noise performance, low component count and low area consumption. A prototype 9 GHz LNA vehicle amplifier is designed and fabricated in a 130nm RF-CMOS process. The measured amplifier has 20.5dB of gain at 8.8GHz with input and output match of -15dB and -8dB respectively. It has 1.4GHz of 3 dB-bandwidth around 9GHz with the noise figure of 1.7dB at the center frequency and below 2dB across the band. Large signal measurements reveal that the amplifier can deliver -2dBm of power to the 50Ω output load at its 1 dB compression point. It draws 23mA of current from a 1.2V supply. The chip occupies an area of 0.64mm 2 .
ISSN:0886-5930
2152-3630
DOI:10.1109/CICC.2007.4405814