Wide Tuning Range with High-Q Active Inductor using Differential Active Inductor Based on Weak Inversion Transistors

Ridouane Hamdaouy Ridouane Hamdaouy

doi:10.17577/ijertv7is070083

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Wide Tuning Range with High-Q Active Inductor using Differential Active Inductor Based on Weak Inversion Transistors - written by Ridouane Hamdaouy , Khadija Slaoui , Boussetta Mostapha published on 2018/07/23 download full article with reference data and citations

Highlights

Motivated by the growing market of wireless communications system, instrumentations and optical communications much effort have been devoted to the implementation of components in CMOS technology
The power consumption and the operating frequency range have been the major shortcomings of active inductor which is reported in [5].The efforts are on to substitute the passive inductor using active inductor [6-8].Recently for broadband RF and Microwave applications, a new architecture for active inductor is proposed in [9]
The performance of the active inductors shown in Fig.2 and Fig.3 have been analyzed by using simulation in Cadence spectre simulator. 130 nm CMOS technology from tsmc13rf foundry was used for the MOSFETs

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Motivated by the growing market of wireless communications system, instrumentations and optical communications much effort have been devoted to the implementation of components in CMOS technology. The main purpose of designing the active inductor is to reduce the area of the inductor compared to the passive inductor while maintaining reasonable quality factor of the device. The poor performance of the passive inductors (spiral inductor) in the CMOS technologies is due to the poor quality factor. The main advantage of the active inductor is improved quality factor, reduced chip area and tuned characteristics compared to the passive inductor which can be used in the RF circuits. The power consumption and the operating frequency range have been the major shortcomings of active inductor which is reported in [5].The efforts are on to substitute the passive inductor using active inductor [6-8].Recently for broadband RF and Microwave applications, a new architecture for active inductor is proposed in [9].

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