Micro-Power FinFET RF Front-End for Embedded Wireless Systems
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A micro-power RFIC front-end, a low-noise amplifier (LNA) combined with a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), has been designed using FinFET BSIMSOI model, which is developed for all FinFET transistors fabricated at the SPAWAR system center. The LNA power consumption is 26 μW at 0.5V supply and the VCO power consumption is 29 μW at 0.5V supply.
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