• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.55-61
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• 2015

A bandwidth-enhanced ultra-wide band (UWB) CMOS balun-LNA is implemented as a part of a software defined radio (SDR) receiver which supports multi-band and multi-standard. The proposed balun-LNA is composed of a single-to-differential converter, a differential-to-single voltage summer with inductive shunt peaking, a negative feedback network, and a differential output buffer with composite common-drain (CD) and common-source (CS) amplifiers. By feeding the single-ended output of the voltage summer to the input of the LNA through a feedback network, a wideband balun-LNA exploiting negative feedback is implemented. By adopting a source follower-based inductive shunt peaking, the proposed balun-LNA achieves a wider gain bandwidth. Two LNA design examples are presented to demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed approach. The LNA I adopts the CS amplifier with a common gate common source (CGCS) balun load as the S-to-D converter for high gain and low noise figure (NF) and the LNA II uses the differential amplifier with the ac-grounded second input terminal as the S-to-D converter for high second-order input-referred intercept point (IIP2). The 3 dB gain bandwidth of the proposed balun-LNA (LNA I) is above 5 GHz and the NF is below 4 dB from 100 MHz to 5 GHz. An average power gain of 18 dB and an IIP3 of -8 ~ -2 dBm are obtained. In simulation, IIP2 of the LNA II is at least 5 dB higher than that of the LNA I with same power consumption.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2008년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.545-546
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• 2008

This paper presents a low power CMOS low noise amplifier for UWB applications. To reduce the power consumption, two cascode amplifiers was stacked in DC. Designed with $0.18-{\mu}m$ CMOS technology, the proposed LNA achieves 20dB flat gain, below 3dB noise figure, and the power consumption of 5.2mW from a 1.8 V supply voltage.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.670-672
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• 2007

An ultra-wideband low-noise amplifier is proposed with operation up to 8.2 GHz. The amplifier is fabricated with a 0.18-${\mu}m$ CMOS process and adopts a two-stage cascode architecture and a simplified Chebyshev filter for high gain, wide band, input-impedance matching, and low noise. The gain of 19.2 dB and minimum noise figure of 3.3 dB are measured over 3.4 to 8.2 GHz while consuming 17.3 mW of power. The Proposed UWB LNA achieves a measured power-gain bandwidth product of 399.4 GHz.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.27-33
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a high gain, current reused ultra wideband (UWB) low noise amplifier (LNA) that uses TSMC 0.18 ${\mu}m$ CMOS technology. To satisfy the wide input matching and high voltage gain requirements with low power consumption, a resistive current reused technique is utilized in the first stage. A ${\pi}$-type LC network is adopted in the second stage to achieve sufficient gain over the entire frequency band. The proposed UWB LNA has a voltage gain of 12.9~18.1 dB and a noise figure (NF) of 4.05~6.21 dB over the frequency band of interest (1~10 GHz). The total power consumption of the proposed UWB LNA is 10.1 mW from a 1.4 V supply voltage, and the chip area is $0.95{\times}0.9$ mm.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.34-39
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• 2008

An RF front-end dual-conversion receiver for $3{\sim}5\;GHz$ MB-OFDM UWB systems is implemented in $0.18\;{\mu}m$ CMOS technology. The receiver includes a two-stage UWB LNA, an RF mixer, an IF I/Q mixer, and a frequency synthesizer. The proposed receiver adopts the dual-conversion architecture to mitigate the burden of design of the frequency synthesizer. Accordingly, the proposed frequency synthesizer generates four LO tones from only one VCO. The receiver front-end achieves power gain of 16.3 to 21 dB, NF of 7 to 7.6 dB over $3{\sim}5\;GHz$, and IIP3 of -21 dBm, while consuming 190 mW from a 1.8 V supply.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.76-80
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 3~5 GHz의 동작 주파수를 가지는 0.18-${\mu}m$ CMOS 저전력/광대역 저잡음 증폭기 구조를 제안한다. 제안하는 광대역 저잡음 증폭기는 광대역 입력 정합, 발룬 기능, 그리고 우수한 노이즈 특성을 얻기 위해 노이즈 제거 회로 구조를 채택하였다. 특히, 2차 LC-대역 통과 필터를 증폭기의 부하로 구현함으로써 기존에 발표된 문헌들보다 최소 전력을 소모하면서 높은 전력 이득과 낮은 잡음 지수를 얻을 수 있었다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 저잡음 증폭기는 1.8 V 공급 전압으로부터 단지 3.94 mA의 전류를 소모하며, 모의 실험 결과, 3~5 GHz UWB 대역에서 전력 이득은 최소 +17 dB 이상, 잡음 지수는 최대 +4 dB 이하, 그리고 입력 IP3는 -15.5 dBm을 가진다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.158-165
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 3.1-10.6GHz 초광대역 CMOS 저잡음 증폭기의 새로운 구조를 소개하였다. 제안된 초광대역 저잡음 증폭기는 입력 임피던스 정합에 RC 피드백과LC 필터회로를 사용하여 설계되었다. 이 설계에 전류 재사용 구조는 전력소비를 줄이기 위해 채택되었으며, 인덕터 피킹 기법은 대역폭을 확장하기 위하여 적용되었다. 이 초광대역 저잡음 증폭기의 특성을 $0.18-{\mu}m$ CMOS 공정기술로 시뮬레이션을 수행한 결과는 3.1-10.6GHz 대역 내에서 전력이득은 14-14.9dB, 입력정합은 -10.8dB이하, 평탄도는 0.9dB, 잡음지수는 2.7-3.3dB인 것을 보여준다. 또한, 입력 IP3는 -5dBm이고, 소비전력은 12.5mW이다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.238-246
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• 2011

A 3-5 GHz UWB radar chip in 0.13 ${\mu}m$ CMOS process is presented in this paper. The UWB radar transceiver for surveillance and biometric applications adopts the equivalent time sampling architecture and 4-channel time interleaved samplers to relax the impractical sampling frequency and enhance the overall scanning time. The RF front end (RFFE) includes the wideband LNA and 4-way RF power splitter, and the analog signal processing part consists of the high speed track & hold (T&H) / sample & hold (S&H) and integrator. The interleaved timing clocks are generated using a delay locked loop. The UWB transmitter employs the digitally synthesized topology. The measured NF of RFFE is 9.5 dB in 3-5 GHz. And DLL timing resolution is 50 ps. The measured spectrum of UWB transmitter shows the center frequency within 3-5 GHz satisfying the FCC spectrum mask. The power consumption of receiver and transmitter are 106.5 mW and 57 mW at 1.5 V supply, respectively.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.112-116
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• 2005

This paper presents a broadband two-stage low noise amplifier(LNA) operating from 3 to 10 GHz, designed with 0.18 ${\mu}m$ RF CMOS technology, The cascode feedback topology and broadband matching technique are used to achieve broadband performance and input/output matching characteristics. The proposed UWB LNA results in the low noise figure(NF) of 3.4 dB, input/output return loss($S_{11}/S_{22}$) of lower than -10 dB, and power gain of 14.5 dB with gain flatness of $\pm$1 -dB within the required bandwidth. The input-referred third-order intercept point($IIP_3$) and the input-referred 1-dB compression point($P_{ldB}$) are -7 dBm and -17 dBm, respectively.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.176-181
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• 2013

This paper presents a CMOS impulse radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) receiver implemented using IBM 0.13um CMOS technology for inner/inter-chip wireless interconnection. The IR-UWB receiver is based on the non-coherent architecture which removes the complexity of RF architecture (such as DLL or PLL) and reduces power consumption. The receiver consists of three blocks: a low noise amplifier (LNA) with active balun, a correlator, and a comparator. Simulation results show the die area of the IR-UWB receiver of 0.2mm2, a power gain (S21) of 12.5dB, a noise figure (NF) of 3.05dB, an input return loss (S11) of less than -16.5dB, a conversion gain of 18dB, a NFDSB of 22. The receiver exhibits a third order intercept point (IIP3) of -1.3dBm and consumes 22.9mW of power on the 1.4V power supply.