1,2 Anna University Abstract—Low noise amplifier is a crucial and essential component in RF receiver design. It amplifies the received weak RF signal with minimum noise contribution. Designing Low noise amplifier with CMOS technology is one of the important topics in research fields due to its advantages of low power, low cost and higher integration. Applications of LNA include WLAN, WSN and UW...

This study presents a Ka-band direct-conversion receiver using 28-nm CMOS (Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) process for radar applications. The designed includes LNA (Low-Noise Amplifier), Mixer, and Baseband amplifier. adopts two-stage cascode amplifier structure. Then, the mixer is single-balanced passive with low flicker noise. At end, baseband transimpedance fat FET (Field-Effect-tr...

A fully-active low-noise amplifier (LNA) for ultrawideband application is presented. Passive on-chip inductor of conventional LNA design is replaced by low-noise active inductor, significantly reducing the total chip area of the proposed CMOS LNA. The core LNA circuit is a cascoded common-source amplifier loaded with an active inductor. Two buffer stages are used to provide the required input a...

150104-8686-IJECS-IJENS © August 2015 IJENS I J E N S  Abstract— In this paper, a dual-band, multi-standard, concurrent, low noise amplifier operating in the 2.45/5.25 GHz bands is presented. The amplifier design is based on an ultra low noise PHEMT transistor connected in the common source configuration with inductive degeneration. The proposed amplifier stability is ensured using a series ga...

In this paper, a low noise high gain CMOS amplifier for minute nerve signals is presented. By using a mixture of weakand strong inversion transistors, optimal noise suppression in the amplifier is achieved. A continuous-time offsetcompensation technique is utilized in order to minimize impact on the amplifier input nodes. The method for signal recovery from noisy nerve signals is presented. A p...

This paper describes a CMOS capacitive sensing amplifier for a monolithic MEMS accelerometer fabricated by post-CMOS surface micromachining. This chopper stabilized amplifier employs capacitance matching with optimal transistor sizing to minimize sensor noise floor. Offsets due to sensor and circuit are reduced by ac offset calibration and dc offset cancellation based on a differential differen...

This paper deals with the design of low power low noise neural signal amplifier for Epileptic Seizure Prediction. The advent of Micro-electro Arrays has driven the need for implantable electronic circuitry to detect those Extracellular neural signals (ENG). We proposed a preamplifier of fully differential Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) with gm boosting in order to enhance the gain as well as reduce ...

A 1.2 V, 0.61 mA bias current, low noise amplifier (LNA) suitable for low-power applications in the 2.4 GHz band is presented. Circuit has been implemented, laid out and simulated using a UMC 130 nm RF-CMOS process. The amplifier provides a 13.3 dB power gain a noise figure NF< 2.28 dB and a 1-dB compression point of −15.69 dBm, while dissipating 0.74 mW. Such performance make this design suita...

A two stage sub-µW Inverter-based switched-capacitor amplifier-filter is presented which is capable of amplifying both spikes and local field potentials (LFP) signals. Here we employ a switched capacitor technique for frequency tuning and reducing of 1/f noise of two stages. The reduction of power consumption is very necessary for neural recording devices however, in switched capacitor (SC) cir...