A 4–6GHz current-mode differential transconductance wide band LNA

Author

Tu, Yuxiang ; Wang, Chunhua

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Eng., Hunan Univ., Changsha, China

fYear

2011

fDate

16-18 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

2821

Lastpage

2824

Abstract

In this paper, a novel current-mode differential transconductance wide band low noise amplifier (LNA) designed in the chartered 0.18μm CMOS technology is proposed to realize the receiver front-end. The proposed LNA frequency ranges from 4GHz to 6GHz. It utilizes two stage structure, with a current-mirror using inductive series peaking technique to achieve optimized current output.The noise performance is improved through the use of a gm-boosting technique, while the gain performance is improved and power consumption is saved by using current-reused technique. Simulation results demonstrate that the circuit provides flat transconductance gain higher than 17dB, noise figure lower than 2.25dB and low operating voltage of 0.85V in frequency band.A comparison with other LNAs in similar and nearby frequency bands shows the proposed LNA has advantages of higher gain,lower noise figure and better other performances.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; current-mode circuits; field effect MMIC; low noise amplifiers; microwave amplifiers; operational amplifiers; CMOS technology; current-mirror; current-mode differential transconductance wide band LNA; current-reused technique; frequency 4 GHz to 6 GHz; gm-boosting technique; inductive series peaking technique; low noise amplifier; noise figure; power consumption; size 0.18 mum; voltage 0.85 V; CMOS integrated circuits; Logic gates; Low-noise amplifiers; Mirrors; Noise; Noise figure; Transconductance; current-mode; differential transconductance LNA; high gain; low noise figure; wide band;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Control Engineering (ICECE), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Yichang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8162-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECENG.2011.6058057

Filename

6058057