A sub-mW 960-MHz ultra-wideband CMOS LNA

Author

Wang, Stanley B T ; Niknejad, Ali M. ; Brodersen, Robert W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of EECS, UC Berkeley, CA, USA

fYear

2005

Firstpage

35

Lastpage

38

Abstract

This paper presents a sub-mW ultra-wideband (UWB) fully-differential CMOS low-noise amplifier (LNA) operating below 960 MHz for sensor network applications. By utilizing both NMOS and PMOS transistors to boost the transconductance, coupling the input signals to the back-gates of the transistors, and combining the common-gate and shunt-feedback topologies, the LNA achieves 13 dB of power gain, a 3.6 dB noise figure, -15 dB input match, and -10 dBm of IIP3 with only 0.72 mW of power consumption from a 1.2 V supply.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; UHF amplifiers; UHF integrated circuits; differential amplifiers; low-power electronics; ultra wideband communication; wideband amplifiers; 0.72 mW; 1.2 V; 13 dB; 3.6 dB; 960 MHz; CMOS LNA; NMOS transistors; PMOS transistors; UWB low-noise amplifier; common-gate topology; fully-differential LNA; sensor networks; shunt-feedback topology; transconductance; transistor back-gate input signal coupling; ultra-wideband LNA; Energy consumption; Gain; Impedance matching; Low-noise amplifiers; MOS devices; MOSFETs; Network topology; Noise figure; Transconductance; Ultra wideband technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, 2005. Digest of Papers. 2005 IEEE

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8983-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2005.1489203

Filename

1489203