Low noise amplifier with combined input matching, balun, and transmit/receive switch

NLA Chan, BW Min - US Patent 8,229,367, 2012 - Google Patents
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5.7 GHz low-power variable-gain LNA in 0.18 µm CMOS

YS Wang, LH Lu - Electronics Letters, 2005 - IET
A variable-gain low-noise amplifier (LNA) suitable for low-voltage and low‐power operation
is designed and implemented in a standard 0.18 µm CMOS technology. With a current …

[PDF][PDF] Design and noise optimization of RF low noise amplifier for IEEE standard 802.11 a WLAN

R Kumar, M Kumar, VM Srivastava - International Journal of VLSI …, 2012 - academia.edu
Low noise amplifier is the front end block of radio-frequency receiver system. Its design
required various characteristics such as power gain, noise figure, insertion losses and …

A 20-GHz low-noise amplifier with active balun in a 0.25-/spl mu/m SiGe BICMOS technology

B Welch, KT Kornegay, HM Park… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 20-GHz low-noise amplifier (LNA) with an active balun fabricated in a 0.25-/spl mu/m SiGe
BICMOS (f/sub t/= 47 GHz) technology was presented by the authors in 2004. The LNA …

Figure of merit for narrowband, wideband and multiband LNAs

R Ramzan, F Zafar, S Arshad… - International Journal of …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
In software defined radio, the same radio front end is used to accommodate different
wireless standards operating in different frequency bands. The use of wideband or …

A compact 5.6 GHz low noise amplifier with new on-chip gain controllable active balun

M Rajashekharaiah, P Upadhyaya… - 2004 IEEE Workshop on …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A dual gain low noise amplifier for a 5.6 GHz ISM band direct conversion receiver, has been
designed using a TSMC 0.25/spl mu/m CMOS process and features a gain controllable on …

A controllable variable gain LNA for 2 GHz band

YS Hwang, CJ Kim, JH Kim… - 2005 Asia-Pacific …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A variable gain LNA with large and continuous gain variation is proposed. By adding a
simple gain-control loop at the second stage of a cascade LNA, a continuous gain tuning …

Low‐noise and high‐linearity LNA based on InGaP/GaAs HBT for 5.3‐GHz WLAN

SS Myoung, JG Yook - Microwave and Optical Technology …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a low‐noise and high‐linearity LNA based on InGaP/GaAs HBT for 5.3‐
GHz WLAN. Previous LNAs based on FET series (such as HEMTs) show excellent noise …

A low noise gain-variable LNA for 802.11 a WLAN

HC Lai, ZM Lin - 2007 IEEE Conference on Electron Devices …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the paper we present a 5.7 GHz gain-variable LNA. This LNA is designed in TSMC CMOS
0.18-μm technology based on an improved current-reused cascade common source …

CMOS single-ended-to-differential low-noise amplifier

TC Carrillo, JG Macias-Montero, AO Martí, JS Córdoba… - Integration, 2009 - Elsevier
In this work, a low-power single-ended-to-differential low-noise amplifier (LNA) is reported.
The circuit has been designed and optimized to be included in an IEEE 802.15. 4 standard …