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0.7 V supply highly linear subthreshold low-noise amplifier design for 2.4 GHz wireless sensor network applications

✍ Scribed by Hee-Sauk Jhon; Hakchul Jung; Minsuk Koo; Ickhyun Song; Hyungcheol Shin


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
381 KB
Volume
51
Category
Article
ISSN
0895-2477

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Abstract

A low supply voltage and highly linear subthreshold CMOS low noise amplifier (LNA) for 2.4 GHz wireless sensor network applications is presented in this letter. We applied multiple gated transistor (MGTR) technique in subthreshold region to compensate the linearity degradation of low supply cascode topology. Moreover, the feedback capacitor, C~f~ is used to enhance the power gain of amplifier without additional dc‐power dissipation. The proposed LNA has gain of 13.1 dB, noise figure (NF) of 3.8 dB, and −2.5 dBm IIP3 while dissipating only 0.49 mW from 0.7 V supply. The LNA has been designed using a 0.13 μm 1P8M standard CMOS process with top metal thickness of 3.3 μm__.__ © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 51: 1316–1320, 2009; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.24333