The improvement of a conventional Gyrator-C active inductor consisting of common-emitter configured and common-collector configured with resistance feedback is presented. The fixed passive resistor is replaced with tunable active resistor (TAR) to enhance the adjustability of the active inductor. Multi-regulated Cascode (MRC) circuit is applied to boost quality factor Q. Compared with the conve...

A low power 5.8 GHz fully integrated CMOS low noise amplifier (LNA) with on chip spiral inductors for wireless applications is designed based on TSMC 0.18 μm technology in this paper. The cascode structure and power-constrained simultaneous noise and input matching technique are adopted to achieve low noise, low power and high gain characteristics. The proposed LNA exhibit a state of the art pe...

In this paper, we introduce binary-weighted digital control into the gain cell design of a distributed transversal filter (DTF) to demonstrate the benefits of digitally-assisted RF circuits. By effectively integrating a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) into the gain cell, the new design can improve gain cell’s linearity and hence DTF’s dynamic range. A 5-tap DTF prototype was designed and impl...

Modeling of a ferroelectric interdigital capacitor (IDC) and its incorporating in composite right/left-handed (CRLH) unit cells is represented. To evaluate the capacitance of a multi-layered IDC structures, conformal mapping and partial capacitance methods are utilized. Furthermore, the partial displacement method is utilized to calculate the electric field distribution and the its relation in ...

This thesis studies the design and fabrication of spiral inductors for use in Radio Frequency (RF) applications. A design methodology is developed to search an inductor design space efficiently using existing simulation software. The methodology allows designers to specify a desired inductance, total area, and frequency of operation instead of the geometrical parameters required by most design ...

A low-power fully-integrated type-2 4'h-order 1.7GHz CMOS frequency synthesizer for DCS1800 application is designed and simulated in a 0.25pm process technology. The frequency switching is achieved using a novel architecture exploiting a direct digital synthesis (DDS) device as the frequency reference. The new topology significantly lowers the undesired sideband power due to divider ratio switc...

In this paper, a design and fabrication of a miniaturized 2.5 GHz 8 W power amplifier using selectively anodized aluminum oxide(SAAO) substrate are presented. The process of SAAO substrate is recently proposed and patented by Wavenics Inc. which uses aluminum as wafer. The selected active device is a commercially available GaN HEMT chip of TriQuint company, which is recently released. The optim...

The Cúk converter, which has voltage buck and boost ability, offers high flexibility as an interface device for solar panels. In addition, current ripple can be more reduced because of two input and output inductors at both sides. This paper presents a new application of current-variable inductors in a Cúk converter that reduces the size and capacity of storage elements. Because of two inductor...

Electromagnetic (EM) simulators have been widely used to model spiral inductors in silicon and gallium arsenide chips. The quality factor, commonly referred as Q is the most important figure of merit for such a device. However, estimating the Q can be quite a challenging task for an EM simulator since the calculation of resistive losses in the conductor is required. Planar EM simulators rely on...