In this paper, a low-power adaptive low noise amplifier (LNA) is presented. The LNA is based on a bipolar cascode topology, uses inductive source degeneration and emitter area scaling to achieve noise and input-impedance matching simultaneously. The input impedance and the noise factor were simulated as function of the bias collector current and the results show that both are approximately cons...

AbstractChopping is a proficient way to reduce the low frequency offset and 1/f noise in amplifiers. In this paper, a low power low noise CMOS chopper amplifier is presented. It is composed of a two stage amplifier. The first stage’s high output impedance and the equivalent Miller capacitance of the second stage constitute together a low pass filter, which reduces the power consumption. The cir...

This paper presents the integrated circuit design of an ultra-wideband (UWB) transceiver for a wireless endoscope that enables real-time diagnosis with high resolution images. The implemented UWB transceiver is a non-coherent transmit reference (TR) architecture with differential binary phase shift Keying (DBPSK) modulation. All-digital pulse generator (PG) and merged radio frequency (RF) front...

Two UWB LNAs based on a new configuration suitable for low-power and low-voltage applications are presented. The proposed configuration saves bias circuit because of sharing only a bias circuit. In designing LNA-1 good phase linearity property achievement is followed for low-power and low-voltage applications, while in LNA-2 the main concerns are high power gain, by keeping low-power consumptio...

The low noise amplifier (LNA) serves as the first component of the radio frequency receiver system. The performance of LNA determines the sensitivity and selectivity of the receiver. In order to maximize performance the gain, noise figure and input matching of LNA needs to be optmized. This paper presents a 60GHz low noise amplifier on 0.13-μm standard CMOS technology designed using classical n...