Bandwidth and gain extension technique for CMOS distributed amplifiers using negative capacitance and resistance cell

Abstract

This paper presents the design of a distributed amplifier simulated in a 0.13µm CMOS model That use of a negative capacitance and resistance in order to increase gain and bandwidth. The proposed structure is used at the gate transmission line of the distributed amplifier. The negative capacitance at the gate transmission line decreases parasitic effects of gain cells and increases amplifier bandwidth and accordingly increases voltage gain. The generated negative resistance decreases transmission lines losses and increases bandwidth. The proposed 7-stage distributed amplifier consumes 97mW from 1.8V power supply while providing a voltage gain of 15dB from 0.5-to-49GHz with less than 0.3dB in-band gain-variation. The circuit has a measured input and output return losses −7.9dB and −9.4dB, respectively, and an in-band noise-figure less than 4.7dB, while circuit input and output are matched with 50Ω resistance.