The (R) evolution of distributed amplifiers: From vacuum tubes to modern CMOS and GaN ICs

G Nikandish, RB Staszewski… - IEEE Microwave …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Broadband amplification of signals is desirable in many applications such as high-speed
data communications, high-resolution imaging systems, optoelectronics, and …

A Novel Distributed Amplifier With High Gain, Low Noise, and High Output Power in CMOS Technology

JC Kao, P Chen, PC Huang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new distributed amplifier (DA) topology is proposed, which is a combination of the
conventional DA and the cascaded single-stage DA. This DA topology can provide wide …

A Fully Integrated X-Band Phased-Array Transceiver in 0.13- SiGe BiCMOS Technology

C Liu, Q Li, Y Li, XD Deng, X Li, H Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the design of an X-band phased-array transceiver core chip in 0.13-μm
SiGe BiCMOS technology. The system is based on the all-RF architecture and contains …

40-Gb/s High-Gain Distributed Amplifiers With Cascaded Gain Stages in 0.18- CMOS

JC Chien, LH Lu - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel circuit topology for high-gain distributed amplifiers is presented in this study. Based
on the conventional distributed architecture, the gain cells are realized by cascading cas …

Design of a CMOS tapered cascaded multistage distributed amplifier

A Arbabian, AM Niknejad - IEEE Transactions on Microwave …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the design and measurement of a distributed amplifier (DA) in a
standard 90-nm CMOS process. To improve the gain and bandwidth (BW) of the DA, the use …

CMOS distributed amplifiers using gate–drain transformer feedback technique

CY Hsiao, TY Su, SSH Hsu - IEEE Transactions on Microwave …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents CMOS distributed amplifiers (DAs) using the proposed gate-drain
transformer feedback technique. The feedback allows reuse of the traveling signal to …

Analysis and design of CMOS distributed amplifier using inductively peaking cascaded gain cell for UWB systems

YS Lin, JF Chang, SS Lu - IEEE Transactions on Microwave …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A low-power, high-gain (HG), and low-noise (LN) CMOS distributed amplifier (DA) using
cascaded gain cell, formed by an inductively parallel-peaking cascode-stage with a low-Q …

A broadband distributed amplifier with internal feedback providing 660GHz GBW in 90nm CMOS

A Arbabian, AM Niknejad - 2008 IEEE International Solid-State …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the presented DA (distributed amplifier) architecture, a feedback mechanism that aims at
improving the gain with a minimum reduction in BW is proposed. It is seen that in the band …

A compact 77% fractional bandwidth CMOS band-pass distributed amplifier with mirror-symmetric Norton transforms

V Bhagavatula, M Taghivand… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the design of a high fractional-bandwidth millimeter-wave band-pass
distributed amplifier (BPDA) implemented in a 40 nm (LP) CMOS process. A high-order load …

A 24 to 30-GHz Phased Array Transceiver Front End With 2.8 to 3.1-dB RX NF and 22 to 24% TX Peak Efficiency

W Lee, C Ozdag, JO Plouchart… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a compact 24–30-GHz phased array transceiver (TRX) front end (FE)
with high transmitter (TX) power efficiency and low receiver (RX) noise figure (NF) in a 130 …