Abstract |
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List of Symbols and Abbreviations |
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1.1 The Growth of the Wireless Communication Market |
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3 | (2) |
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5 | (1) |
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2 Low-Noise Amplifiers in CMOS Wireless Receivers |
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9 | (1) |
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2.2 Some Important RF Concepts |
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2.2.1 Quality Factor of Reactive Elements and Series-Parallel Transformation |
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2.2.2 SNR and Noise Figure |
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11 | (1) |
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2.2.3 Impedance Matching, Power Matching, Noise Matching |
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12 | (1) |
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2.2.4 Transducer Power Gain, Operating Power Gain and Available Power Gain |
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13 | (2) |
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2.2.5 Intermodulation Distortion |
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15 | (2) |
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2.3 The Deep Sub-Micron MOS Transistor at Radio Frequencies |
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2.3.1 MOS Model for Hand Calculations |
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2.3.2 Linearity of the short-channel MOS transistor |
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2.3.3 Non-Quasi Static Model |
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2.3.4 Extended MOS Model for Simulation |
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2.4.1 Resistor Thermal Noise |
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2.4.2 Thermal Noise in MOS transistors |
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2.4.2.1 Classical MOS Channel Noise |
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2.4.2.2 Induced Gate Noise |
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2.5 The LNA in the Receiver Chain |
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2.5.1 Cascading Non-Ideal Building Blocks |
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2.5.1.1 Noise in a Cascade |
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2.5.1.2 IIV3 of a Cascade |
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2.5.2 Wireless Receiver Architectures |
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2.5.3.3 Voltage Gain or Power Gain |
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2.5.3.4 Intermodulation Distortion |
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2.5.3.5 Reverse Isolation |
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2.5.3.7 Single-ended vs. Differential |
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2.6 Topologies for Low-Noise Amplifiers |
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2.6.1 The Inductively Degenerated Common Source LNA |
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2.6.1.1 From Basic Common-Source Amplifier to Inductively Degenerated Common-Source LNA |
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33 | (4) |
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39 | (3) |
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2.6.2 The Common-Gate LNA |
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2.6.3 Shunt-Feedback Amplifier |
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2.6.5 Highly Linear Feedforward LNA |
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2.6.6 The Noise-Cancelling Wide-band LNA |
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2.6.7 Current Reuse LNA with Interstage Resonance |
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2.6.8 Transformer Feedback LNA |
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3.2 ESD Tests and Standards |
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3.2.3 Charged Device Model |
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3.2.4 Transmission Line Pulsing |
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3.3 ESD-Protection in CMOS |
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3.3.1 ESD-Protection Devices |
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3.3.1.2 Grounded-Gate NMOS |
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3.3.1.3 Gate-Coupled NMOS |
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3.3.1.4 Silicon-Controlled Rectifier |
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3.3.2 ESD-Protection Topologies |
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3.3.2.2 Power Supply Clamping |
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4 Detailed Study of the Common-Source LNA with Inductive Degeneration |
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4.2 The Non-Quasi Static Gate Resistance |
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4.2.1 Influence of rg,NQS on Zin, GT and IIP3 |
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4.2.2 Influence of rg,NQS on the Noise Figure |
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4.3 Parasitic Input Capacitance |
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4.3.1.1 Influence of Cp on Input Matching |
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4.3.1.2 Influence of Cp on Power Gain, Noise Figure and IIP3 |
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4.3.2 Impact of Cp Non-Linearity |
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4.3.3 Impact of the Finite Q of Cp |
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4.5 Optimization of the Cascode Transistor |
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4.6 Output Capacitance Non-Linearity |
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92 | (3) |
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4.7 Impact of a Non-Zero S11 |
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4.8 Output Considerations |
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4.8.1 Load Impedance Constraints |
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101 | (4) |
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4.10.2.2 Patterned Ground Shields |
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4.10.3 The Amplifying Transistor |
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4.10.4 The Cascode Transistor |
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4.11 The Common-Gate LNA Revisited |
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105 | (4) |
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109 | (2) |
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5 RF-ESD Co-Design for CMOS LNA's |
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111 | (1) |
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5.2 ESD-protection within an L-Type Matching Network |
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112 | (7) |
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5.2.2 General Performance |
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113 | (2) |
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5.2.3 Design and Layout of the ESD Protection Diodes |
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5.2.4 Non-Linearity of Input ESD Protection Diodes |
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116 | (3) |
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119 | (1) |
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5.3 ESD-Protection within a Π-Type Matching Network |
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119 | (4) |
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5.4 Inductive ESD-Protection |
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123 | (3) |
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5.6 Other ESD-Protection Strategies |
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128 | (2) |
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5.6.1 Distributed ESD-Protection |
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5.6.2 ESD-Protection with T-Coils |
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5.7 ESD-Protection for the Common-Gate LNA |
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6 Integrated CMOS Low-Noise Amplifiers |
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6.2 A 0.8 dB NF ESD-Protected 9 mW CMOS LNA |
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6.2.1 The GPS Power Levels |
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135 | (4) |
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6.2.5 Experimental Results |
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6.2.6 Discussion and Comparison |
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6.3 A 1.3 dB NF CMOS LNA for GPS with 3 kV HBM ESD-Protection |
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6.3.1 The Complete GPS Receiver Front-End |
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6.3.1.2 Low-Noise Amplifier |
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6.3.1.3 Quadrature, Direct Digital Downconversion |
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6.3.1.4 PLL Frequency Synthesizer |
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149 | (1) |
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6.3.2 The Low Noise Amplifier |
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150 | (3) |
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153 | (5) |
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158 | (1) |
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6.4 A 5 GHz LNA with Inductive ESD-Protection Exceeding 3 kV HBM |
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159 | (10) |
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159 | (1) |
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160 | (5) |
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A Fundamentals of Two-Port Noise Theory |
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Index |
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