dB-Linear Variable Gain Amplifier Design in 0.18 μm Process with Optimization

An Inherently dB-linear All-CMOS Variable Gain Amplifier

This paper introduces a simple variable gain amplifier (VGA) structure that shows an inherently dB-linear gain control property. Requiring no additional components for dB-linear control, the structure is compact and power efficient. The designed two-stage VGA shows a gain control range of 60dB with the gain error in the range of ±0.4 dB. The power consumption including the output buffer is 20.4...

Low-Power Linear Variable Gain Amplifier

This paper presents a low-power linear variable gain amplifier (VGA). This VGA gains its low-power linear properties with the help of the local feedback auxiliary (LFA) amplifier. The core of this LFA amplifier is based on flipped voltage follower (FVF) circuit. This VGA provides the flexibility to tune its gain with dual tuning voltages. Gain range of 15 dB to 16 dB with maximum bandwidth of 2...

A Highly Linear Cmos Amplifier for Variable Gain Amplifier Applications

This paper reports the design of a highly-linear CMOS amplifier for Variable Gain Amplifier (VGA) applications. A better than –60dB 3rd harmonic distortion at differential output level of 1V peak-to-peak is obtained by utilizing a linearization scheme that does not rely on the active devices. The amplifier maintains 3dB bandwidth over 300MHz. A noise figure at 8.6dB is obtained with source impe...

Low-power 42 dB-linear single-stage digitally-controlled variable gain amplifier

A compact digitally-controlled single-stage variable gain amplifier (VGA) is introduced, which doubles the dB-linear range through the reconfiguration, saves power by 50% while maintaining the same linearity performance compared to those of the previous design. Implemented in 0.18 mm CMOS technology, the 5-bit digitally-controlled VGA achieves dB-linear gain range of 42 dB (221 to 21 dB) with g...

Design of a wideband variable gain amplifier