{"title":"An RF CMOS cascode LNA with current reuse and inductive source degeneration","authors":"H. Fouad, K. Sharaf, E. El-Diwany, H. El-Hennawy","doi":"10.1109/MWSCAS.2001.986314","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"An RF CMOS Low-Noise Amplifier (LNA) is proposed using a current reuse technique (CRT) to increase the amplifier transconductance without increasing power dissipation. The circuit was simulated and designed with 0.5 /spl mu/m CMOS MOSIS process. At 1 GHz, the LNA noise figure (NF) is 2.7 dB, forward gain is 21.6 dB and reverse isolation is -42.5 dB. The LNA consumes 20.3 mW from a 2.2 V power supply.","PeriodicalId":403026,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 44th IEEE 2001 Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems. MWSCAS 2001 (Cat. No.01CH37257)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2001-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"24","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 44th IEEE 2001 Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems. MWSCAS 2001 (Cat. No.01CH37257)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWSCAS.2001.986314","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 24
Abstract
An RF CMOS Low-Noise Amplifier (LNA) is proposed using a current reuse technique (CRT) to increase the amplifier transconductance without increasing power dissipation. The circuit was simulated and designed with 0.5 /spl mu/m CMOS MOSIS process. At 1 GHz, the LNA noise figure (NF) is 2.7 dB, forward gain is 21.6 dB and reverse isolation is -42.5 dB. The LNA consumes 20.3 mW from a 2.2 V power supply.