Design of source degenerated cascode dual functionality LNA/PA for the IEEE 802.15.4 (ZigBee) standard

Author

Abuelmaatti, Ali ; Thayne, Ian ; Abuelma´atti, Muhammad Taher

Author_Institution

Dept. of Elecronics & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

8-10 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper presents a new compact and comprehensive design methodology for RF CMOS source degenerated cascode dual functionality low-noise amplifier (LNA) and power amplifier (PA) for the IEEE 802.15.4 standard (commercially known as ZigBee). The proposed design methodology is based on simultaneous graphical visualization of the relationship between all relevant performance parameters and the corresponding design parameters. The proposed methodology was successfully used to design a 2.4 GHz amplifier that satisfies both the requirements of the ZigBee LNA and PA.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; UHF amplifiers; data visualisation; low noise amplifiers; personal area networks; power amplifiers; IEEE 802.15.4 standard; RF CMOS source degenerated cascode dual functionality LNA; RF CMOS source degenerated cascode dual functionality PA; comprehensive design methodology; frequency 2.4 GHz; graphical visualization; low noise amplifier; power amplifier; Character generation; Design methodology; Energy consumption; Low-noise amplifiers; Power amplifiers; Topology; Transceivers; Transconductance; Visualization; ZigBee; intermodulation distortion; low noise amplifiers; power amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information, Communications and Signal Processing, 2009. ICICS 2009. 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Macau

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4656-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4657-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICS.2009.5397555

Filename

5397555