Bandwidth extension techniques for CMOS amplifiers

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2424-2438

  Shekhar, Sudip ^a,b   Walling, Jeffrey S ^a,b   Allstot, David J ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth extension; Low noise amplifier; Low power; Peaking; Staggering; T coil; Transformer; Ultra wideband (UWB); Wireless; Wireline

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH EXTENSION; LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIERS; MAGNETIC COUPLING; PEAKING; STAGGERING; T-COILS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

BANDWIDTH; CAPACITANCE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; GAIN CONTROL;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 33750800568     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2006.883336     Document Type: Conference Paper

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