Low-Area Active-Feedback Low-Noise Amplifier Design in Scaled Digital CMOS

Jonathan Borremans; Piet Wambacq; Charlotte Soens; Yves Rolain; Maarten Kuijk

Low-Area Active-Feedback Low-Noise Amplifier Design in Scaled Digital CMOS

Jonathan Borremans, Piet Wambacq, Charlotte Soens, Yves Rolain, Maarten Kuijk

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Abstract

The emerging concept of multistandard radios calls for low-noise amplifier (LNA) solutions able to comply with their needs. Meanwhile, the increasing cost of scaled CMOS pushes towards low-area solutions in standard, digital CMOS. Feedback LNAs are able to meet both demands. This paper is devoted to the design of low-area active-feedback LNAs. We discuss the design of wideband, narrowband and multiband implementations. We demonstrate that competitive RF performance is achievable thanks to CMOS downscaling, pleasing many applications because of their low cost (digital CMOS) and low area (bondpad size).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2422-2433
Number of pages	12
Journal	IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, November 2008
Volume	43
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2008

Keywords

CMOS
dual-band
feedback
inductorless
LNA
low area
low-noise amplifier
narrowband
stacked inductor
wideband

OZR1745: Electronic circuits and devices.
Kuijk, M.
1/10/07 → 31/12/11
Project: Fundamental
IWT293: Design of high speed CMOS baseband circuits for wireless applications
Kuijk, M.
1/01/06 → 31/12/09
Project: Fundamental

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OZR1745: Electronic circuits and devices.

IWT293: Design of high speed CMOS baseband circuits for wireless applications

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