• DocumentCode
    2628088
  • Title

    A 9.5-dB 50-GHz Matrix Distributed Amplifier in 0.18-/spl mu/m CMOS

  • Author

    Chien, Jun-Chau ; Chen, Tai-Yuan ; Lu, Liang-Hung

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei
  • fYear
    0
  • fDate
    0-0 0
  • Firstpage
    146
  • Lastpage
    147
  • Abstract
    Implemented in a 0.18-mum CMOS process, a 2times4 matrix amplifier is presented in this paper. Due to the use of the second-tier gain cells in the distributed amplifier architecture, the proposed circuit exhibits a remarkable nominal gain of 9.5 dB with a 3-dB bandwidth of 50 GHz while maintaining input and output return losses better than 10 dB over the entire frequency band. A gain-bandwidth product of 150 GHz is demonstrated in this work
  • Keywords
    CMOS analogue integrated circuits; distributed amplifiers; millimetre wave amplifiers; wideband amplifiers; 0.18 micron; 50 GHz; 9.5 dB; CMOS technology; distributed amplifier; gain-bandwidth product; matrix amplifier; Bandwidth; Broadband amplifiers; CMOS process; Capacitance; Circuits; Coplanar waveguides; Distributed amplifiers; Frequency; Impedance; Transmission line matrix methods;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    VLSI Circuits, 2006. Digest of Technical Papers. 2006 Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Honolulu, HI
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0006-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/VLSIC.2006.1705352
  • Filename
    1705352