Abstract

In this paper two reconfigurable multi band low-noise amplifiers, namely LNA1 for 802.11ah/b/g and LNA2 for 802.11ah/b/g, DCS-1800 applications using tank circuits are presented. Dual feedback is used to achieve multi band operation in both the LNAs. Power dissipation of the LNAs is reduced by employing current-reuse and forward body-biasing in the first stage of the LNAs. The novelty of the proposed approach lies in the fact that the reconfigurability of the LNAs for multi bands is achieved using simple tank circuits without requiring any additional biasing arrangement. The LNAs are designed using UMC 180 nm RFCMOS process. The post layout simulation results of LNA1 showed a power gain of 9.3 dB with noise figure of 3.7 dB, IIP3 of −2.19 dBm, DC power dissipation of 16.5 mW at 900 MHz and a power gain of 10.6 dB, noise figure of 3.1 dB, IIP3 of −2.7 dBm at 2.4 GHz. In LNA2 one common-source stage is added for further gain improvement and one more tank circuit is added to operate it additionally in GSM band, namely DCS-1800. Post layout simulation of LNA2 showed a power gain of 16.1 dB with noise figure of 4.6 dB, IIP3 of −6.57 dBm, DC power dissipation of 24.9 mW at 900 MHz; a power gain of 14.7 dB with noise figure of 5.4 dB, IIP3 of −4.34 dBm at 1.8 GHz and a power gain of 16.2 dB, noise figure of 3.6 dB, IIP3 of 0.57 dBm at 2.4 GHz.

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