Showing 3 results for Lna
R. Mirzalou, A. Nabavi, Gh. Darvish,
Volume 8, Issue 3 (9-2012)
Abstract
This paper presents a new ultra-wideband LNA which employs the complementary derivative superposition method in noise cancellation structure. A pMOS transistor in weak inversion region is employed for simultaneous second- and third-order distortion cancellation. Source-degeneration technique and two shunt inductors are added to improve the performance at high frequencies. The degeneration inductor resonates at fT/2 and realizes a new input matching technique that widens the bandwidth with decreasing its quality factor and input capacitance, while flattens the input resistance and also improves the 1dB Compression Point. The shunt inductors resonate at the center frequency of the band and improve the effective bandwidth of noise/distortion cancellation technique. This LNA has been designed in a 0.18-μm CMOS process and consumes 8.3 mA from 1.8 V power supply. The chip area is 0.55mm2. The noise figure and voltage gain are 4.48-5.18 dB and 13 dB, respectively. S11 is lower than -13.5 dB over 5.8–10.6 GHz and IIP3 is 14.5–17.5 dBm, IIP2 is 14–15.5 dBm. This technique improves IIP3 more than 9dB.
M. Safari, M. Eghtesadi, M. R. Mosavi,
Volume 12, Issue 2 (6-2016)
Abstract
In this paper, a new design of concurrent dual-band Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) for multi-band single-channel Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers is proposed. This new structure is able to operate concurrently at frequency of 1.2 and 1.57 GHz. Parallel and series resonance parts are employed in the input matching in order to achieve concurrent performance. With respect to used pseudo-differential structure, LNA is basically a single-ended-to-differential conversion and it consequently has no need to balun. In addition, an inductively degenerated cascode approach is employed to have better simultaneous matching and Noise Figure (NF). Simulations are performed with TSMC 0.18 μm technology in ADS software. Results analysis present that LNA achieves input matchings of -11.024 and -13.131 dB, NFs of 2.315 and 2.333 dB, gains of 26.926 and 27.576 dB, P-1dB of -15.3 and -13 dBm, IIP3 of -0.9 and 2.2 dBm at 1.2 and 1.57 GHz, respectively. Besides, LNA consumes 8.32 mA DC current from a 1.8 V supply voltage.
S. Juneja, R. Sharma,
Volume 15, Issue 4 (12-2019)
Abstract
Design of Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver with a low noise amplifier (LNA) in the front end remains a major design requirement for the success of modern day navigation and communication system. Any LNA is expected to meet the requirements like its ability to add the least amount of noise while providing sufficient gain, perfect input and output matching, and high linearity. However, most of the reported designs of LNAs present the need for striking a trade-off between these design parameters in order to obtain the desired performance for a particular RF receiver. This paper presents high gain (21dB), high input matched (-29dB), high reverse isolation (-41dB) and low noise figure (< 2dB) narrowband LNA for extremely low power level GPS L1 band signals broadcasting at 1.57GHz with a channel bandwidth of 10MHz. Inductive source degeneration topology is employed for the design and all the matching inductors in the circuit are used with fixed quality factor (Q) to model the losses for better tuning and matching. The design is carried out on Cadence Virtuoso Tool version IC6.1.6 and Spectre version MMSIM13.1 at 0.18µm technology node using a generic process development kit. Detailed mathematical analysis of the design is done and all the DC parameters like values of transconductance, gate source capacitance, drain source voltage, drain current, etc. are reported. Graphical analysis using Smith chart is carried out to present the results and to bring forth the trade-offs involved in the design. LNA draws 5mA current from 1.2V supply voltage and offers good linearity that is sufficient for GPS application and is measured by input intercept point 3 (IIP3 < ‑4dBm).
