The first transistor-based impedance matching circuit for radio-frequency (RF) applications is introduced in this paper. It adapts arbitrary output impedances of RF blocks to desired values between 50 and 250 , from 0 to 5GHz, while occupying only 0.005mm2 of circuit area in a 0.35μm SiGe BiCMOS process. Its superiority over traditional passive-element networks can be resumed by the following f...

Maximizing amplifier PAE and associated output power is critical to preserving the detection capabilities of radar systems. The conflicting criterion for maximizing efficiency is amplifier linearity, which is a well studied tradeoff [1,2]. ACPR shows a measure of linearity by directly quantifying the spectral leakage produced at the amplifier output. Load pull techniques are can be used to meas...

There is a strong interest in the Submillimeter community to increase the IF bandwidth of SIS receivers in order to facilitate extra-galactic astronomy. However, increasing the IF bandwidth generally also means increasing the IF operating frequency of the mixer, because it is very difficult to achieve a good IF impedance match to a low noise amplifier (LNA) for more than an octave bandwidth. Co...

An experimental investigation of high-temperature dc SQUID amplifier connected in series with a high-Tc superconductor (HTS) thin-film band-pass filter is presented. The SQUID amplifiers are designed with microstrip input coils and fabricated on bicrystal substrates of zirconia and sapphire with different misorientation angles of 24 and 37 . SQUID parameters are optimized to attain 50-X input i...

Employing 130-nm IBM CMOS model parameters, the design of a power-efficient single-stage microwave amplifier is presented in this paper. An optimization technique for the amplifier forward gain is proposed through careful selection of process elements without compromising the architecture’s high degree of isolation and resistance to reflection-loss. A novel mechanism to match port-impedances of...

This paper proposes a wideband common-gate LNA using capacitive feedback. The transconductance of the proposed LNA can be enlarged and noise figure can be improved while the conventional common-gate LNA has to use a smaller transconductance for the input impedance matching. In the experimental results using a 0.18-μm CMOS technology, the gain is 13.4 dB, NF is 2.7 dB, IIP3 is −7 dBm at 0.8GHz, ...

This paper presents an ultra-wideband (UWB) low noise amplifier (LNA) consuming 2.2-mW core dc power for 6-8.5GHz wireless applications. A common-gate input stage is cascaded with a common-source second stage to perform input impedance matching and wideband stagger-tuning amplification, while the current-reuse topology minimizes the dc power dissipation. The design method used to achieve flat-g...

This paper presents a temperature measurement system without the input buffer. A voltage follower or a buffer is required to minimize the influence of the ADC input impedance in the thermistor temperature measurement system. In such system, a high performance operational amplifier is usually required to prevent the noise and distortion due to the additional circuit. Negative power is also neces...

This paper describes a new electronically tunable three inputs and single output voltage-mode universal biquadratic filter based on simple CMOS operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) and grounded capacitors. The proposed configuration provides lowpass, highpass, bandpass, bandstop and allpass voltage responses at a high impedance input terminal, which enable easy cascadability. Addition...

In this paper, the design of linear amplifiers for current sources with very low, or voltage sources with very high impedance is discussed. In designing negative-feedback amplifiers for these sources, the loopgain is often low as a result of the source impedance, thus making it difficult to obtain a sufficiently high bandwidth. Here, it is proposed to use CB or CC stages in front of a negative-...