A 28 nm CMOS low-noise amplifier with novel redundant noise cancellation technique beyond ultra-wideband for 6G-based wireless systems

Abstract

In the current scenario, almost 5G-based wireless systems have been deployed everywhere but still performance trade-offs of RF amplifiers in the sub-nanometer regime are challenging. In this work, a high-performance low-noise amplifier (LNA) is realized in a 28 nm CMOS process with a novel redundant noise cancellation technique (RnC). The proposed technique improves the noise figure (NF) beyond the ultra-wideband of a low-noise amplifier (LNA) and minimizes the trade-off in the 28 nm process. An ultra-low NF is achieved in two approaches; Firstly, a current mirror network is employed in the primary path to cancel the thermal noise of the dominant transistor of a common gate-common source (CG-CS) without an extra power supply. Secondly, an auxiliary amplifier stage is introduced here to reduce the noise which contributes to the current mirror circuit and cancels the distortion in CG-CS topology without violating the traditional noise cancellation condition. In addition, an analytical approach is followed to optimize the input impedance, gain bandwidth and noise figure. Hence, the proposed RnC LNA benefits in achieving good tradeoffs among gain, bandwidth, NF, and power consumption in 28 nm technology node. The proposed RnC LNA is analyzed and fabricated using CMOS 28 nm technology, occupying an area of 0.011 mm2. The proposed design achieves an optimum performance: nearly flat gain of 15.3 dB, minimum NF of 1.7 dB over 1.7 to 12.52 GHz, and an IIP3 of − 2.6 dBm at 6.5 GHz. The proposed LNA consumes ultra-low power consumption of 1.8 mW under the power supply of 1 V.