Design of an ESD-protected ultra-wideband LNA in nanoscale CMOS for full-band mobile TV tuners

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 933-942

  Mak, Pui In ^a   Martins, Rui ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

CMOS; Electrostatic discharge (ESD); Low noise amplifier (LNA); Mobile TV tuner; Radio frequency (RF); Thermalnoise cancellation; Ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA BROADCASTING; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; NETWORK SECURITY; NOISE FIGURE; RADIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; RESONANT CIRCUITS; TUNERS;

EXTERNAL RESONANT; HIGH POWER EFFICIENCIES; HUMAN BODY MODELING; MOBILE-TV TUNER; NOISE CANCELLATION; NOISE PERFORMANCE; PROCESS , VOLTAGE AND TEMPERATURES; RADIO FREQUENCIES;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 67649298002     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2009.2015185     Document Type: Conference Paper

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