{"title":"A broadband high linearity inductorless CMOS variable gain amplifier for square kilometer array","authors":"I. Abdalla, A. Allam, H. Jia, Ramesh K. Pokharel","doi":"10.1109/SMACD.2015.7301683","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a high-bandwidth 2 GHz CMOS variable gain amplifier (VGA) for using in the band of square kilometer array (SKA) range that achieves an 18 dB dynamic range (DR) while powered from a single 1.8 V supply. This VGA capability is obtained by employing a passive digital T-bridge attenuator followed by a fixed amplifier, the use of attenuator in the front end of the VGA results in a high linearity of 28 dBm to 34 dBm over the full DR. In contrast to traditional VGAs [5], [6], the VGA exhibits 30-50 dB more in DR while its bandwidth and IP3 extends below the presented.","PeriodicalId":207878,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2015 International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SMACD.2015.7301683","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper presents a high-bandwidth 2 GHz CMOS variable gain amplifier (VGA) for using in the band of square kilometer array (SKA) range that achieves an 18 dB dynamic range (DR) while powered from a single 1.8 V supply. This VGA capability is obtained by employing a passive digital T-bridge attenuator followed by a fixed amplifier, the use of attenuator in the front end of the VGA results in a high linearity of 28 dBm to 34 dBm over the full DR. In contrast to traditional VGAs [5], [6], the VGA exhibits 30-50 dB more in DR while its bandwidth and IP3 extends below the presented.