On the calculation of noise in multistage amplifiers

Author

Leach, W. Marshall, Jr.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

Volume

42

Issue

3

fYear

1995

fDate

3/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

176

Lastpage

178

Abstract

It is shown that it can be a fallacy that the noise figure of a multistage amplifier is primarily determined by the noise figure of the first stage if the available power gain of the first stage is sufficiently high. The expression for the equivalent input noise voltage of a multistage amplifier is derived, where each stage is represented by the V_n-I_n amplifier noise model. It is shown that the noise contributed by stages following the first stage is lowest when the first stage has a high transconductance, an input resistance that is high compared to the source resistance, and a high open-circuit voltage gain. In addition, the second stage must have a low input current noise. Circuit topologies which meet these conditions are described

Keywords

amplifiers; cascade networks; circuit noise; network analysis; network topology; amplifier noise model; available power gain; circuit topologies; equivalent input noise voltage; input current noise; input resistance; multistage amplifiers; noise figure; open-circuit voltage gain; transconductance; Bandwidth; Circuit noise; Circuit topology; Impedance; Low-frequency noise; Noise figure; Noise generators; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1057-7122

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/81.376870

Filename

376870