Executive Summary In this report we show that a distributed cooling system delivering liquid coolant to all the front-end LNAs of an SKA mid-frequency aperture array station is not only practicable but can also be implemented in an economically beneficial way. The aperture array configuration can be adjusted to either deliver an overall cost saving or conversely produce a sensitivity improvemen...

A fully integrated low-noise amplifier (LNA) with 0.4V supply voltage and ultra-low power consumption at 1.5GHz by folded cascode structure is presented. The proposed LNA is designed in a TSMC 0.18 μm CMOS technology, in which the all transistors are biased in sub-threshold region. Through the use of the proposed circuit for the gain enhancement in this structure and using forward body bias tec...

A current trend in Air Traffic Management research is the development of decision support tools to aid in the sequencing and scheduling of terminal area and en route traffic as a means of increasing overall capacity and efficiency of operation. What is emerging as an increasingly important factor for terminal operations, however, is the environmental impact – in particular that of noise exposur...

ETRI Journal, Volume 29, Number 5, October 2007 ABSTRACT⎯An ultra-wideband low-noise amplifier is proposed with operation up to 8.2 GHz. The amplifier is fabricated with a 0.18-μm CMOS process and adopts a twostage cascode architecture and a simplified Chebyshev filter for high gain, wide band, input-impedance matching, and low noise. The gain of 19.2 dB and minimum noise figure of 3.3 dB are m...

This work is mainly to ensure the reliability of low power low noise amplifier design and analysis which is useful for 4G receiver front ends in particularly WIMAX applications. The low noise amplifiers implemented by using different topologies namely (a) Cascoded Common source amplifier technique(b) Folded Cascode amplifier technique (c) Shunt feedback amplifier technique (d) Current reuse Com...

We propose a design methodology of a low-voltage CMOS low-noise amplifier (LNA) consisting of a common-source and a common-gate stages. We first derive equations of power gain, noise figure (NF) and input third-order intercept point (IIP3) of the two-stage LNA. A design methodology of the LNA is presented by using graphs based on analytical equations. A 1-V 5.4-GHz LNA was implemented in 0.15-μ...

Acoustic models of an HMM-based classifier include various types of hidden factors such as speaker-specific characteristics and acoustic environments. If there exist a canonicalization process that represses the decrease of differences in acoustic-likelihood among categories resulted from hidden factors, a robust ASR system can be realized. We have previously proposed the canonicalization proce...

A DECT/Bluetooth multi-standard front-end with adaptive image rejection is described. The front-end is designed and simulated in 0.18 μm CMOS technology. Using a multi-band LNA with zero external components full integration of the front-end is achieved. In high image-reject DECT mode it has a NF of 10 dB consuming a current of 47 mA, while in low image-reject DECT mode a NF of 5 dB is obtained ...

A 1V, 1GHz low noise amplifier (LNA) has been designed and simulated using Spectre simulator in a standard TSMC 0.18um CMOS technology. With low power and noise optimization techniques, the amplifier provides a gain of 24 dB, a noise figure of only 1.2 dB, power dissipation of 14 mW from a 1 V power supply.

In this paper two dimensional wave propagation is used for power combining in drain nodes of a distributed amplifier (DA). The proposed two dimensional DA uses an electrical funnel to add the currents of drain nodes. The proposed structure is modified due to gate lines considerations. Total gain improvement is achieved by engineering the characteristic impedance of gate lines and also make appr...