CMOS Distributed Amplifiers With Extended Flat Bandwidth and Improved Input Matching Using Gate Line With Coupled Inductors Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • This paper presents a state-of-the-art distributed amplifier with coupled inductors in the gate line. The proposed coupled inductors, in conjunction with series-peaking inductors in cascode gain stages, provide bandwidth extension with flat gain response for the amplifier without any additional power consumption. On the other hand, gate-inductor coupling improves the input matching of the amplifier considerably. The detailed analysis and design methodology for the proposed distributed amplifier are presented. The new four-stage distributed amplifier, fabricated using an IBM 0.18-m complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor process, achieves a power gain of around 10 dB, input and output return losses better than 16 and 18 dB, respectively, a noise figure of 3.6-4.9 dB, and a power consumption of 21 mW over a 16-GHz flat 1-dB bandwidth. The measured IIP3of the amplifier is between 0.1 and 3.75 dBm across the entire band. 2009 IEEE.

published proceedings

  • IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES

author list (cited authors)

  • Entesari, K., Tavakoli, A. R., & Helmy, A.

citation count

  • 33

complete list of authors

  • Entesari, Kamran||Tavakoli, Ahmad Reza||Helmy, Ahmed

publication date

  • December 2009