The emerging concept of multistandard radios calls for low-noise amplifier (LNA) solutions able to comply with their needs. Meanwhile, the increasing cost of scaled CMOS pushes towards low-area solutions in standard, digital CMOS. Feedback LNAs are able to meet both demands. This paper is devoted to the design of low-area active-feedback LNAs. We discuss the design of wideband, narrowband and multiband implementations. We demonstrate that competitive RF performance is achievable thanks to CMOS downscaling, pleasing many applications because of their low cost (digital CMOS) and low area (bondpad size).
Borremans, J, Wambacq, P, Soens, C, Rolain, Y & Kuijk, M 2007, Low-Area Active-Feedback Low-Noise Amplifier Design in Scaled Digital CMOS. in IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC) 2007. IEEE, pp. 1-10, 2007 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), Jeju, Korea, Democratic People's Republic of, 12/11/07.
Borremans, J., Wambacq, P., Soens, C., Rolain, Y., & Kuijk, M. (2007). Low-Area Active-Feedback Low-Noise Amplifier Design in Scaled Digital CMOS. Unpublished. In IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC) 2007 (pp. 1-10). IEEE.
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title = "Low-Area Active-Feedback Low-Noise Amplifier Design in Scaled Digital CMOS",
abstract = "The emerging concept of multistandard radios calls for low-noise amplifier (LNA) solutions able to comply with their needs. Meanwhile, the increasing cost of scaled CMOS pushes towards low-area solutions in standard, digital CMOS. Feedback LNAs are able to meet both demands. This paper is devoted to the design of low-area active-feedback LNAs. We discuss the design of wideband, narrowband and multiband implementations. We demonstrate that competitive RF performance is achievable thanks to CMOS downscaling, pleasing many applications because of their low cost (digital CMOS) and low area (bondpad size).",
keywords = "dual-band, inductorless, LNA, low-noise amplifier, narrowband, stacked inductor",
author = "Jonathan Borremans and Piet Wambacq and Charlotte Soens and Yves Rolain and Maarten Kuijk",
year = "2007",
month = nov,
day = "12",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-4244-1359-1",
pages = "1--10",
booktitle = "IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC) 2007",
publisher = "IEEE",
note = "2007 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC) ; Conference date: 12-11-2007 Through 14-11-2007",
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