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Low cost ultra wideband amplifier in 0.35 μm CMOS process
Author(s) -
Modha Kuldip N.,
HayesGill Barrie,
Harrison Ian
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.23525
Subject(s) - amplifier , wideband , electrical engineering , bandwidth (computing) , cmos , direct coupled amplifier , amplifier figures of merit , noise figure , microwave , ultra wideband , low noise amplifier , electronic engineering , engineering , optoelectronics , materials science , telecommunications , operational amplifier
A two stage ultra wideband (UWB) amplifier is presented. This amplifier incorporates multiple bandwidth enhancing techniques and is implemented in Austria micro systems (AMS) 0.35 μm CMOS process technology. The amplifier consumes 39.5 mW of power, exhibits a maximum gain of 13 dB, has input and output reflections below −9 and −10 dB, respectively over a −3 dB bandwidth of 4 GHz. The average measured noise figure is 6 dB and 1 dB compression point at 3 GHz is −12 dBm. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 50: 1879–1881, 2008; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.23525