This paper presents an UWB low noise amplifier (LNA) based on current reused topology to achieve low power on overall circuit in the band of 3~16GHz. Measurement of the input and output reflection coefficient S11, S22 are less than 10 dB, the maximum amplifier gain S21 gives 9.7dB, the minimum of the noise figure is 4.2dB, the measured IIP3 is 8.5dBm at 6GHz. It consumes 11mW power consumption ...

We propose a design methodology of a low-voltage CMOS low-noise amplifier (LNA) consisting of a common-source and a common-gate stages. We first derive equations of power gain, noise figure (NF) and input third-order intercept point (IIP3) of the two-stage LNA. A design methodology of the LNA is presented by using graphs based on analytical equations. A 1-V 5.4-GHz LNA was implemented in 0.15-μ...

This paper presents a ultra wideband low noise amplifier for 6GHz Applications. This proposed LNA is the extension of inductively common source amplifier and in this design we used transistor multifingering techniques in order to reduce noise and improves gain. This LNA is simulated by using UMC .18um CMOS mixed signal/RF process in cadence virtuoso. In this design, used current source biasing,...

this paper surveys recent research on Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) design for Cognitive Radios (CR). Design challenges and requirements of CR are discussed and recent advances in topologies and design techniques are presented, compared and summarized. The classical trade-offs of linearity, gain, input impedance matching and noise are discussed herein with respect to the Wide Bandwidth requirement....

This paper presents a Low Noise Amplifier for UWB Radio Receiver at 8.72GHz using 0.18μm UMC Technology where 0.18μm technology is for lower power consumption. UWB Radio Receiver which made up in between the frequency range of 3.1GHz to 10.6GHz.The basic architecture of LNA comprises a RF amplifier in the middle of input matching network and the output matching network. We have designed a low n...

The design issues in designing low noise amplifier (LNA) for Software-Defined-Radio (SDR) are reviewed. An inductor-less wideband low noise amplifier aiming at low frequency band (0.2-2 GHz) for Software-DefinedRadio is presented. Shunt-shunt LNA with active feedback is used as the first stage which is carefully optimized for low noise and wide band applications. A digitally controlled second s...

The objective of this paper is to investigate a ultra-wideband (UWB) low noise amplifier (LNA) by utilizing a two-stage cascade circuit schematic associated with inductive-series peaking technique, which can improve the bandwidth in the 3 10 GHz microwave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC). The proposed UWB LNA amplifier was implemented with both co-planer waveguide (CPW) layout and 0.15 μm G...

In this paper, a differential multi-band CMOS low noise amplifier (LNA), operated in a wide range from 800MHz~1700MHz, with wide-band interference rejection, linearity improvement and the capacitive cross-coupling technology, is proposed. The proposed differential multi-band CMOS low noise amplifier with high linearity performance and good interference rejection performance. The post-simulation...

A 1.227 GHz low power single-ended input, differential output low noise amplifier (balun LNA) for GPS is proposed. A two stage structure with current-reused technique is adopted to achieve low power, low noise factor and high voltage gain simultaneously. The LNA is fabricated in 0.18 mm CMOS process, consuming only 2 mA current from a 1.8 V supply. The LNA is measured to exhibit a differential ...

the low noise amplifier is the key part for front-end device of the receiver in the GPS. A 1.8V 0.18um CMOS LNA for GPS applications has been designed. Two kinds of low noise amplifier (LNA) for single-end cascade structure and differential cascade structure respectively are presented in this paper. Cadence software is used to optimize the two circuits. It provides a series of good results in N...