Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifiers for UWB Applications

Author

Lin, Kun-You ; Tsai, Ming-Da ; Shin, Shih-Chieh ; Wang, Huei

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei

fYear

2006

fDate

23-26 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1813

Lastpage

1816

Abstract

This paper reviews our recent research effort on low-power low-noise amplifier for ultra-wideband applications. Two modified distributed amplifiers and one LNA using inductive-peaking technique for low-power UWB applications were developed. The two modified distributed amplifiers, consuming 5.4- and 6.4-mW dc power, have 10- and 12-dB small-signal gain, respectively. The NF is lower than 6.5 dB from 3.1 to 10.6 GHz. The inductive peaking LNA provides a gain of better than 14.5 dB and a NF of lower than 5.4 dB under 10.8-mW power consumption

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; distributed amplifiers; low noise amplifiers; low-power electronics; microwave integrated circuits; ultra wideband communication; 10 dB; 3.1 to 10.6 GHz; 5.4 mW; 6.4 mW; inductive peaking LNA; inductive-peaking technique; low-power UWB applications; low-power low-noise amplifiers; modified distributed amplifiers; Broadband amplifiers; Circuits; Distributed amplifiers; Energy consumption; Frequency; Low-noise amplifiers; Noise measurement; Optical amplifiers; Power transmission lines; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology, 2006. ICSICT '06. 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0160-7

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0161-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSICT.2006.306455

Filename

4098551